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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  at every turn. But, I knew how this would end, of course, because I ... and continued to work on my essay. At 3am, in commemoration of reaching ... . Believe it or not, I had to be up at 8:30am ahead of a 9am tour. I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  stare at part b. Inductance is nothing more than the result of geometry, I ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... 'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... looked up at the dome. The inscriptions at its base. The ten pillars. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  , we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I can now read blog posts from OpenAI and understand at least some of ... derivative of GPT-2 is dubbed Robo-CJ. He’s pretty bad at coherent sense, but ... , I want to be in the sport of icebreakers, I want to be at least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... 're used pretty heavily, at least judging by the percentage of machines which ... whatnot. Grad school update: As of this evening, I have interviews at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  . There’s nothing like looking at all of the people that support all that ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston ... , after at least seven years of channelled and concentrated effort. I did it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  't know how at all, and I failed a bunch of tests. Miserably. And I had all ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  make a living out of making rhymes.   Laughed at bad ... Joseph Ducreux ones, because at one point of my life, I sort of wrote like ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... wouldn't be doing the day justice if I put it at the end of this one. ... Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all ... carpet of her second-story bedroom at 11pm switching between homework and ... the end of the line and I get off at the other end of the line, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025