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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

   instructors." I had my first session of this class today, and in describing what we ... forces me to get up in the mornings, but I think (with dedication) I can ... totally positive.” When I registered for classes in the fall (last) semester

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  ;>>> variety in lab jobs. Plus I have my own set of pipetmen in Morgan's lab. 2 ... The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... next year I can feel proud of what I have accomplished in 2016. Happy ... present myself to other people? What am I capable of? In short, what do I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I ... .01 is taught using the TEAL method, which I kind of explained in this ... of millions people stand in my way. I'm just scared of giving up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly ... friend. I am without an anchor. I am drowning. I am lost in a sea of ... school demons are, in fact, gone because I overcame my fear of living on an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus ... summer resident hadn't moved out of room yet, so I was placed in a room ... now that I'm here, I can verify. They are, in fact, different. I could

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep ... take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I ... numerous other areas of study, I'm interested in the worm's relationship with

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can't promise you an amusing survey, I can provide you an account of WHY we are ... where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle ... Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery ... asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... least I didn't make any egregious spelling errors like I do in all of ... Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... night it rained in earnest. The unmistakable rustle of trees. I snuck out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... : Somewhere in the haze of fluid time trickling around Saturday night, I caved ... selection of some deeply profound queries that I implored: aliens in disguise

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  eventually it wore me down. In one of my first nights in San Francisco, I ... episode in the fall of my senior year. I wailed like she did, and though we ... seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... the best people I've ever met. I'm constantly in awe of how amazing ... .S.: I was told to make a Day in the Life of an MIT Student video to revive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... potential. I can't imagine that kind of one-on-one attention being too common ... amount of sleep you need (or in some cases, the amount of caffeine you can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... leaving? the future versions of lives i can live will not merge into a ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012