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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  's baby really happened. Okay, this entry is not really negative, but I ... got an e-mail from my labmate Jacqueline '07, who's working at NIST this ... pizza I've had here is, well, kind of like pizza. Strangely, I do not miss

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... near campus, and we talked about the past three years (after working ... to say, since this blog's title is not "The Counting Crows are Life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  -out code, I consider that to be pretty satisfactory work. That does not pass ... really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... working at a large tech giant, and the perks were an added bonus to the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  -off jeans may not work well with all interviewers. Basically, you are looking ... , your EC is a person, and is most likely NOT an EMPLOYEE of MIT and its ... response in a few days, that does not necessarily mean the EC is ignoring you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  . something about always trying to reinvent myself but not being committed ... 't know, taken more ases, or taken a class earlier, or not taken a class at ... you've just found a social balance that works for you and you mind your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  [annotation note="cha boi was hired as a sophomore blogger, not as a freshman ... /or recreate snippets of songs that were earworms but not yet an official cast ... , instead of taking a break between school and work), and let ourselves bask

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  crunches."]not being able to do crunches[/annotation] or figuring out how Zoom works. My next event, which was held on Friday, was a part of the ... particular line in the middle, that perhaps would be better not included in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  One class: 8.01. i walked into 8.01, not exactly with optimism, but not ... glance. oh, how i was so wrong. i worked with my friend aiden who is also ... would listen, but not truly learn. i heard, and i remembered, but then i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  next year, hopefully teach you what not to do. I started early. Like ... , not inspirition. The opposite. I realized “if I only have to change the ... to get work done) in order to finish my application. After a short

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  below). Side Note: Allan is not in the first few (because we don't like ... in front of the elevators. It's not shown in this picture, but this ... to appreciate how Katherine is photobombing since she's not a sophomore

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  Helen Oyeyemi The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ... during Not Summer... The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Winter ‘16) The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... blogging not being a real job, some people are professional bloggers.  And ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not ... other news editor who’s working the issue Tuesday: 20.320 (Analysis of ... make senior year not fun at all, because it’s a hard class that I’d have

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus Preview ... possible, start your own life, and not be told when to go to bed and what not ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  if I'll still be happy about it next year. I'm not sure if skipping 8 ... for it. If you're not comfortable testing out of the material, there ... or work on experiements. On certain days, there is no lecture and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  with me when I was watching the program... there's not a new program ... an "extension" until Monday, which is nice considering that we're not ... professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... ) instead of my usual four or five. My other academic commitments are to work ... and being not boring are obviously not mutually exclusive, but there’s a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... class competition to showcase our work.  Specifically, one robot had to ... other robot, which I worked on, had to help a person open a drawer and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  success.  Between hard work and natural ability, they've always been ... !  Because if you're not hitting walls, then you're not pushing yourself hard ... in successive outer layers.  It's how the product works, how it feels

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with. Something else I'm not used to working with: the overwhelming scent of trees ... MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013