Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get ... yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  21W minor. Apparently you can’t do that sort of thing in one day, but I ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I ... with my hands. 6.009: Fundamentals of Programming. I can already tell

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  , Matt '08, Brian '08, and a couple of people I can't make out in the dim ... decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... : 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of ... . You just can't top the experience of spending that much money on ice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... up in the bottom of my gut, not this strange sensation that was disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  'd go over them in this blog post and see which subset of them I ... more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been ... crying. i'd be sitting in front of my computer, and it'd be ten or eleven ... in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  almost every occassion in life.) This was the list of movies I compiled ... not. Oops.) - I finished my last MIT classes, I ate my last meal in the Simmons dining hall, I graduate in about a week...! ...But we will not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... favorite place in all of Columbus, the Columbus Zoo. I hadn't been there in ... up in a few episodes of MythBusters and begged out. So you can yell at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  ’t think I’m into it anymore”. I’ve been fortunate in that I sort of ... biology, you can sprinkle in some more bio. If you want to be an engineer ... of interests, so I was reassured by the flexibility of mechanical

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to ... me in the photo. Here's another picture of it. As you can see, the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components ... in library already included all of the symbols for the components that ... can represent a family of similar components, but how these components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... you can, especially DME!) 9/1 (27425 steps) I live in MacGregor House

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  more than two-thirds of the programming on PBS. In other words, I ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... particularly stressed about day 1 of my senior year. I was, however, feeling

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  example, but in general, I hope I can maintain that particular brand of ... has allowed me to evaluate the effectiveness of my education. I can tell ... detailed report in a ‘readme’ file of the program before I sent it to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  type of creativity that I enjoy expressing but rarely get to in highly ... members of the lab that I UROP in! We developed a dope curriculum to teach ... received for it. Something I've been thinking about in light of all the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... found a calling in rap. Soon the first three tracks of our (yet unreleased ... three different aliases in the blogosphere) and I prepared a modest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019