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• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  gravitational waves, learned about opportunities to work abroad for free (MISTI ... the moment listening and trying to absorb some of their greatness, not ... . Some imposter syndrome symptoms are definitely present too. It’s hard not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a ... ’s photos are magnificent, so be assured--her work will frequently be featured ... or a day or even just an hour, too. Just don’t think about work or THE

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  for the locking mechanism to work, so I called instructions through the ... about how engineers, not physicists, do things like carry around tools ... changed quite a bit.” He asked what area of physics we work in (condensed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... material.  Not that I'm naming names. Laptop Home base for nearly everything I do.  This is my SolidWorks-ing, paper-writing, photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  inevitably periods when the semester gets out of control: the work pile ... more of your work; otherwise you won't get everything done! Sleep three ... today? Skip class to work on the pset instead. This is great on timescales

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros ... About How The Universe Works", and working out pros and cons using ... , great - famous person for an advisor. I'm not going to get any attention

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  destroyed. This is not particularly surprising, since he was a Battlecode ... development. On a similar note, if P = NP...well, let's not get into that. What ... star, pushed a rudimentary but perfectly working reverse lookup to our

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... in presence if not in spirit, like an unwieldy pet rock. 3:00 PM ... sad for the next two hours. 4:15 PM Comparing camera lenses Working

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough ... common solvent, which those of you who have worked in labs or even used ... bunker” or “the dungeon,” as she worked on ICE. Each weekly pset built upon

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  never give ourselves enough time away from work, from checking our email ... not all that different from something I heard Dr Neri Oxman say during ... audience of MIT admitted students was that they were not just here to solve

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  MIT well before 5:45pm. If you choose to ignore my advice, you will not ... about what happened on Friday – it just involves doing work for 1.00 and ... the fare gates. It didn’t quite work that way, because for the umpteenth

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  I'm not sure anybody has mentioned her, so allow me. Everybody, meet ... how to work the Internet. Today we all got an e-mail from Winnie mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  feel like one giant meatloaf of beaching and eating and working and ... Monday afternoons. After work we go places, or sometimes we don't, and ... where you can not only create your own dishes, but they also have half

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... sandwich. What's not to love? I've already met with several MIT interns and ... every American working in Germany has said is that Germans are way more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  effective if the students are not present because they work on problem sets ... students work through problems. Today, we still provide this online version ... governs MIT education: while faculty work hard to create effective learning

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ... world works out here in NJ. We spent Wednesday with my mom and aunt at the ... Princeton, NJ. This is not the be confused with a meeting of students who have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  , apparently. I presented Akash with a loaf of white bread, and he went to work: As we worked, Akash talked about his plans for the 2009 Class Council ... great!" I said. OK, so that's not actually what I said. But something like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  worked, I went to coffee shops, not the libraries. That visit was shorter ... knowing and working, a gap exacerbated by the fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding big choices. Unlike many skills, there's not opportunities to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  I have changed and not changed since that night. I thought about what ... importance of being emotionally open, but in real life I am not like that at ... am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... '09, Gabe '11. Not shown: Shion '12. Brandi trying hard not to be famous to the prefrosh Also shown: This picture trying hard not to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008