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• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  ’s offered in both semesters (albeit with two different professors) so I ... real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  live my life normally —hell, the trust I had in the universe. I believed ... FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  out, but the fear of missing out. in mit, like in any other university ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs ... the fall semester. In case you aren't from MIT, just as general ... semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  really liked the flexibility it offered in its program. There was a pure ... compensation, newfound freedom in class selection For many weeks, I couldn ... make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  class, if you're really into chemistry - 5.112. Only offered in the fall ... playing in the background to keep from falling asleep), I completed my epic 15-paged chem pset and turned it in at noon. That said, and I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college, in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  . Well, Sang’s Canadian now. But he grew up and went to university in South ... So much has happened this summer. I mentioned in my last post, They Call Me Yankee, that I was spending my summer in Houston, Texas working

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... problem in theoretical computer science is to prove whether P and NP are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of ... thought. These are the lifelong friendships they talk about in the movies

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push ... as the class was only three weeks long. The topics, in rough

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  wading around in the rising water, making sure that everything essential ... of this was because I grew up on Macs, and so I've always thought in ... products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore ... realize that at least for me, I won’t know what I am interested in for at least a few years after college graduation. And that’s okay. In fact, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  hope you’ll keep loving this place in the complicated, IHTFP, way just ... positions that are due in an hour... All in one senior evening. Next week, you might be doing that after an interview in New York. Interviews: you never

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  interested in) but definitely stressful, when it's the first semester of senior ... three classes in some "coherent unit": I've taken a whole bunch of lit ... advisor's office, Concentration Proposal Form wrapped up like a scroll in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... remember back in high school, every college admissions officer highlighted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018