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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... .    In fact, I can prove it to you by sharing what we started off our third ... math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  possible kind of way) and awesome people. I can't imagine being here at MIT ... -ranked team put us in a better position for NCAA qualification. I think that ... more time I spend with each and every one of them, the more grateful I am

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... weeks I will have spent a few trillion hours taking three midterms (two of ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... They have week-long free trials! So of course I took six classes in one ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... huge championship boxing match, and I was in the control room where they ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... called to do so as brothers and sisters of this world and I hope that in ... , especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  can only say it is worth it. I didn’t like many of the people in my ... , and actually didn’t know anyone in House 4 of New House. I became ... of my lofted bed in Simmons until I agreed to go on this adventure with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  answer myself. I sleep at five in the morning, exhausted from a day of CPW ... want to do less things? So I can do more things. Of course. Of course ... Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  're interested in watching Lulu, Kim and I graduate, you can watch the webcast ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  are held in 10-250 - I have both my 5.112 and my 18.02 classes in there ... Guild. I was in fact planning on going to both, though, because I ... absolutely amazing. I wish I could write about it in more detail, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  be more of a title than anything else, and I can definitely relate to this. I was a captain of my Cross Country and Track teams in high school ... arrests and brutality for the sake of his country. Thus far in GEL I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I ... can bring. I've gone searching for this hum everywhere I go. In my ... . But in the meantime, I walk onward, keeping the pulse of the campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  memories in my head, some of which i’m not even sure happened, asking me ... talking about the vapidness of fame. i can’t help but draw a parallel. some nights, it feels like i’ve sold my soul to get to mit. not in the sense of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  (majoring in Course 2: Mechanical Engineering) Geez, we have a lot of Course 2 ... Microsoft, working on Surface keyboard (that's all I can say, the rest is ... ; stuff to do with finding connections between regions of the brain...I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  calculated, slower, reasoning System 2. I feel when I type in this kind of ... backspace quite frequently in search of better grammatical phrasing. I do ... sentences with commas, always thinking of replacements for semicolons, etc. I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018