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• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  classes Monday through Thursday means that I can't attend practices in full, but I've been popping in as much as I can, and I'm also tournament ... provides physical artifacts of each week, which can go in my [annotation note='i

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  sometimes (it's really hardcore, I can't take in anything from the outside world except myself, so I certainly can't take in a camera!), and I'm also ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  looks like that. I hadn't been to a baseball game in a while, and I ... certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is ... place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... been no different, unfortunately. I posted the following in the '11 ... pop up every year. I can tell you, having been through 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... missed being in a proper routine. This semester I am taking the most classes I've ever taken in my MIT career; not out of a dislike of myself or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... ; those summers, I lived in Bexley Hall and Burton-Conner, respectively. I ... Report et al, I would suspect that your Midyear Report is in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  ***EDIT, 12/31/12 1:49PM: Of course, no sooner than I post this, it ... problem and are working as quickly as we can to resolve it. If you can't log in, don't worry; we'll be flexible with the Regular Action deadline

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  , and one pset fewer than usual so i can pretend for an hour that i'm not ... my window and breathe in the fresh air; and sometimes when i'm walking ... will have to, because i can't let this happen again. when i look at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can ... once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... degrees Fahrenheit, which isn't even high in sauna standards; but I was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I ... : "It's only an audition! It's not like I'm committing to be in the ... Brain: "I call BS." Me: "No, really!" I showed up, sang "You Can't Get A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular ... write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... , there are no wrong choices - only good choices, and better ones. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... new opportunities (I'm sure many of you are similar). In the past, I ... . [Although I'm using this in reference to life at MIT, recognizing small

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I totally love that I started a web browser war in the comments thread of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously ... away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program ... the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest ... unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018