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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  of Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie. I got back to my room ... near Boston Common at about 11:45. I lost the group on the way out of the ... at least. But woe is this Texan on the first day of snow...which could

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Year of the Dog Happy Lunar New Year!

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Evie* and the entire Office of Admissions! *Evie is the dog of Associate Director of Admissions Joanne Cummings, and is my favorite pooch in the world =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... behind for the new prospectives, the incoming Class of 2016, and everyone

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  are one of the most painfully complicated things currently at MIT. So ... , intermittency, and quasiperiodicity. Scaling and universality. Analysis of ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  assigned to the Tuesday/Thursday 2-5 section of junior lab. I showed up at 4 ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  of FOMO immediately resonated with me, almost to the point at which it ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  .5 years' worth of work at a "normal" courseload. But there's a slight catch ... " courseloads is 384 units. So, that's what sort of picture you're looking at ... same number of units as 3 ordinary classes) 8.ThU (Thesis) Either 8.07 (E

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... to campus, learned lots of different things, and had some free time. But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of ... a link to the full subject listing offered at this year's Splash!, but ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  constituted, at some point, a hell week. But dead week is on a whole new level. It's the equivalent of a reading period at MIT, only classes continue ... in New Hampshire, which is to say we went paintballing at OSG. Among

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  me, have always made me me. One of my New Year’s resolutions has been ... absolved of parties and presents and replaced with New Year’s). I was indignant at the lack of a consumerist Christmas in my newly American family

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... things actually are. Because chances are, you're looking at them under the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a ... presentation at a client site in front of an executive panel in two weeks. Throw ... seem to pop up out of nowhere. No kidding. Inbox currently at over 51k

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... open space signifies an abundance of opportunities. The Charles River: My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the Management Board, Microsoft Germany at the HaffenCity University in ... months. I spent one night at home, then drove down to the South Bay to compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our ... job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect ... place, featuring life updates and interior decorating tips. It’s a new

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  afraid to not pursue things even in the face of your new friends telling ... authoritative, which is what new people want to see from an established member of ... high chance of inadvertently making new friends and having lots of laughs

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  for the first half of the summer had only one real “deadline”, and that was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  , working faster: psets, labs, and readings each week new. The art of being ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  instead of 450 — they will be wider, at least 20 inches instead of 17 inches ... I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back when, when I blogged about the new chairs that could possibly be

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008