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• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  exhausting stairs? I know that I don’t remember the first five minutes of ... I was focused on controlling my breathing and pretending those stairs ... tunnels of building 66 had a big influence on my decision to come to MIT. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  commit. Five of us signed on, but two others couldn't promise anything ... frustrating. We spent hours on Zillow looking for places and contacting agents ... -minute bike ride from MIT, which seemed decent. After touring it, however

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  all the material from recitation or from the online video lectures on ... far too undermotivated to watch the video lectures on my own. Now, 8 ... .012 grades started dropping accordingly. I struggled to hit 70% on homework

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... _n, where T_n > 5 minutes from now. A week or so ago, Becky from somewhere

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the ... Winehouse sticks out like I'm wearing a Tim the Beaver suit. Nina, on the ... the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the ... stuffed me on the 10:30 AM bus anyway, which they don't really advertise on ... -locatable special promotion on the latter, both are around $15 each way, so it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  . She knew that I was on to her. In the last 20 minutes or so, while we ... starts, you act out your role based on the information in your packet ... different. On Friday night, the game was pretty quiet for the first three

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  ’s decision in the SFFA case had on the composition of the Class of 2028, why it ... , on the blogs, I want to share some personal reflections on what this ... , [annotation note='My parents — who were born and raised in the tenements on the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  professors stick around for at least a few minutes to answer any one-on ... for getting lunch, catching up on email, or working on a p-set. I mostly ... on Monday and Friday, since that leaves me with a solid four-hour block

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , crawled under my blanket, and waited for around 30-minutes, willing the ... was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was ... thickets of trees. Vast expanses of green, morning dew accumulating on

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  event on Sunday that people shockingly showed up to, despite me putting in ... " align="aligncenter" width="622"] the greek life events on here are ... . that's about it! there is SO much to do on campus—in addition to all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... ’ve realized in the past semester that I can be really hard on myself. Sometimes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  ’t know I live in the #1 dorm on all of MIT campus #BURTONCONNERORDEATH ... Mother you really should stop here take a few minutes and watch every episode). It seems very nice being on west campus snugly between Baker and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... 're not entirely comfortable turning on, part choices, and Arduinos, maybe ... receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... safely on the off-road bike path until I began to approach the circle

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  flowers, all had adoring expressions on her faces – and when they were done ... House kitchen, to work on my 18.03 (Differential Equations) problem set. 4 ... . Get up, turn it off, pull out laptop, and work on reports for the Public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  something every 4 minutes or so, and . . . well, you should probably just try ... transcript follows] Me: I think I'm taking intro class on programming in C ... 't be that bad - Linda: One kid stepped on his laptop so he wouldn't have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , I've been on an AWARD TOUR WITH MOHAMMED MY MAN. And everywhere I go, you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... of your essay. Avoid slang. Use "street cred" on your own time. If

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... figured I'd pick it up. I took it on an eight-hour train ride back home ... that everybody should probably read it on some rainy afternoon or bus

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  have gone in (early action date was November 1st); the last-minute ... feelings on tumblr the other day:     As it turns out, there ... .S, did you plan on staying?”)* or totally random (“Ma, when you were a kid

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015