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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big ... position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  'm ashamed. I didn’t want to doodle any old thing, so I was waiting for ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  tonight for one question (more soon!) before heading off to my friend Satwik ... graduate schools except for the Business School are open to cross ... interesting to see "how the other half lives." I was grateful for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and ... "]CAD[/annotation] for thorns because I didn’t know how wide they would need to be to fit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  ’ve tried to do this for, the more obvious it’s become to me that i can ... helpful for developing better relationship models and for allowing me to ... means you need an additional model for what to do when your partner is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  for me to get into the class if only I showed up for class on the first ... reading my blog, for some strange reason I don't even want to know, please ... violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I ... as a senator from East Campus) was to provide the kind of example for ... tell MIT that the plan to raise roof fines to up to $500 for a student

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  "smarter", I've just become used to working on assignments for longer periods ... 'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I'm happy with. I don't have a lot to show for my interest in AI other ... this semester, only to beat myself up every morning for not doing better ... faith in yourself. That's hard for me. I like to say that I'm a realist

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  this after dwelling on it for so long and I'm very grateful to all the ... ones I didn't previously used to occupy. I've found myself laughing and ... note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  road trip to take for a three day weekend? What makes a good partner ... struggling to succeed?  Is it worth it to walk all the way to Simmons for ... my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return ... grail of "a nice company that will pay for you to go back to grad school ... fairs. 3. I can't go to MIT for a PhD. Now, this isn't a bad thing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  linear in any way or form and I don’t expect for it to be linear as I ... was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... , it’s terrifying that I was able to keep myself in this bad place for so

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long ... fibers are not powerful enough to run at high speeds for long periods of ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  minority and I don't intend to speak for them. I don't think gender should ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... schedule.[annotation note="thank you to fellow blogger Fiona for making me ... sightreading, and I even got to play The Legend from Deltarune for my prepared

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our ... – the day of the first counselor meeting to prepare for FAP. We walk into ... watching a quality piece of cinema: Troll 2, not to be mistaken for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I searched for the optimal way to get above ground) … ran back inside ... . And the grey sock. For years, I had worn perfectly matched socks to ... dose perhaps six to fifteen times higher than that for humans. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my ... , the project. In years past it's been customary for students in 2.670 to ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the ... everything. I couldn't stay in 2East. I need to do what's best for me. It's a ... ever since I got back from my trip home for winter break. It's making me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023