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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran ... ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... playground every day, and convinced them that if we kept digging, we would find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... hot topic among applying students. I think back and I realize that I've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  offers a solution to my conundrum -- "Just ask how she spells her name. And ... .302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... Sutherland and write a real-time blog entry. 10:04 -- Okay, Michael '08 just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared notes, laughed about it, and felt a lot better after mutually admitting

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  somewhat froshy despite their years at this institute, curious and willing to ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki ... the Class of 2015 Facebook Group and liked very much is called Learning ... environment, which, as Chris M '12 has posted before, is tough. And while the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  than me >:("][/annotation] Course? 14 and 18. (In which I usually ... 6 is electrical engineering and computer science, course 18 is ... , 14.73, and 18.022.[/annotation] People usually can only tell what 18

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was ... unknown. And not getting into the “right” college meant that the future was ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Street from Stata, the new Broad Institute building has broken ground and ... Building 100000 for you binary fans) and read, among other things, about how ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard. My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... about the direction of our club and other high-level issues that are hard

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... my calendar. I have class from 10-12 and then the 18.02 exam from 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  scene and the state of your company's competitors so you can mention this ... calculating!!! State assumptions. At the end, critique your number and say ... software engineering or not and it was a really difficult journey but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  . I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp ... loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  hi internet! i took my last final this morning and am now done with ... about my semester. classes i only had one final this semester, and for ... and letting myself lost sight of the underlying economic intuitions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’ve never really known how to deal with others’ envy, and it feels weird to ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make? And isn’t it presumptuous of me to assume someone else’s underlying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  people you call Mom and Dad. (I'm sure that you call them other things when they are not looking, but that's another entry). So call mom and/or dad to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  called 21M.299: World Music Studies - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys. I wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  much about myself, the world around me, and others throughout those past ... during my sprint. I've spent this past semester doing so much and learning ... commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  major metropolitan areas in the United States) and it was 80% white. After ... . Where I’m From I am from paint smears, From pencils and paper. I am ... morning. I am from leafy bamboo clusters swaying above me Tall and slender

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020