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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start ... ? Well, in terms of a boyfriend for Veronica, I vote Logan all the way. Piz ... 'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  problems, and wake up panicking in the middle of the night because I had ... shot goes up. Maybe today I want to execute my spot in all of the plays ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• 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 / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  the Midwest or whatever. If I cleared one of the smaller minefields in ... mean, I interject on behalf of you since you can't leave a comment on ... parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• 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 / 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 / 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  major focus of poetry. I figured I’d learn new skills that can be applied ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... so I've omitted it). Master of what? Doesn't matter, as long as said ... life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 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 / 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