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• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  wanted to take this entry to assure you of one vitally important fact ... insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  hours and 15 minutes to elect 16 positions. Why? Because it is important ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less ... statement, but it is easier to learn now than it used to be. Most importantly ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean your room to how to decide whether you should go to class can be a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max ... was important, because i wanted to make sure that people were there, and ... people who helped write, and they've all been talking to me and asking me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  it gets better, and allowing yourself to accept that is important as ... makes it more important than ever. Remember to take care of yourself. And ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  , and while there are instructors and lab assistants to guide you, you ... to US totaled 22 hours). The Skype conversation itself was quite ... , all in the period of an hour. Finally, when I went down to laundry later

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  similar to cloud computing? Think of your laptop. How many hours a day do ... the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  over an hour." "Okay." said I, shut the door, rectified the problem, and snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a ... were telling you what camera to go to and whatever. Anyway, the '07 was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  to spend an hour on a single app. Sometimes that's just what it takes ... - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  anything meaningful unless I'm physically sending them to someone important ... Actually Went to Office Hours I am stubborn and I think that people ... went to office hours. Even though I know it will benefit me academically

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  recommendations. Alberto took an important step; he presented the incomplete list to ... accordingly, and student feedback was still important. I held “Office hours” in ... ’ experiences. It was important to not only invite the BSU to these conversations

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  important piece of information that you will need to memorize for any test. I ... split off to take my three-hour biology final. The urge to go to sleep ... .5 hours. Merry Christmas to me. Soon after, I headed down to Lobby 10 in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  -person to get my identity verified and photo taken, and ta-da: out popped a ... This week, I worked as an Orientation Leader (OL) to help first year students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The Office/Grey's Anatomy, and went to four hours of straight classes followed ... 24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger, which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what ... .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at ... If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in addition to this post. We also recently performed our Brazilian music at MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023