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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of Pass/No Record, I don't see any Cs. Well, I can't see any Cs. 9

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... test. In fact, in even broader terms, it reminded me of MIT. I was ... item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  "...only uninterested people." I kind of hate coming up with titles, so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... . Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  four who lived in floorpi, and a group of five related by promys, and i ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... 2 hours of slack: it can be delayed by 2 hours without affecting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  real thing I can compare this to is ESP, and in that sense it's actually ... puzzle didn't have the image of the three circles in the bottom. I wasn ... the lack of progress in that round. I always felt that Rule of Three was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of the time...haha). In defense of not using a schedule, I think my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston ... I actually spend days of my senior year passing out the latest issue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... anthropomorphized characters of MIT and Harvard fall in love. I animated some of the ... Date: Somewhere in 2023 Premise: I drew some of the things I wrote in my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... manuscripts from the School of Kerala, which showed their work in calculus and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  ! Barriers are breaking down, and suddenly you can find every kind of people in ... opinions; I'm just trying to plant a little seed of doubt in the minds of ... . Here's a series of photos in which I explain that: this is the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  ....well, "ashamed" is the closest word I can think of...of the fact that I've lived ... can in the next few months. Any suggestions for weekend travel while I ... your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  mine. There are plenty of good schools I can go to." Mr. Conroy says more ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of ... School, in Deerfield, Ill., says a member of the 2006 graduating class was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston ... working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... time I dropped it at a bus stop in the middle of northern Italy one night

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  in Course 2 in charge of the 2A department so they can verify that I ... drama groups in a production) as one of your classes, which I think is ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  infinite corridor in search of a diet Dr Pepper, and on my way I can look up ... Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... research opportunities are available? In preparation for a visit program, I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I ... out in Alameda, CA, I worked for and with some of the smartest people I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008