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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  students came, most in the area because of various internships. i remember ... one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  , and at some point hallowing out the flesh of dead turkeys before I can ... 't follow expiration dates either. Speaking of which, I'm currenly locked in ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the ... , counting down the number of times i'll see them again in-person before i die

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  : calligraphy. I talked about this in an earlier post, where you can read me ... of fun you can have. That's the kind of fun I want to have. So that ... been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  top of the A tier. You can read more about my experience in Madrid here ... at MIT where I can genuinely say I’ve had a positive experience in it ... can think of is 6.08. Now read that again. How is it that I have taken

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  , considering that this show is always in danger of cancellation, I bet it ... , compared to the massive amounts of grade inflation I experienced in high ... Wednesday already?!" I know, I know, it's all I can keep thinking about too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  installing some sort of video conferencing system. I can hardly believe how ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  /co-workers. (another interesting tidbit: half of our team can probably be seen in the ... good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  have fallen in love with the strong sense of community i’ve experienced ... experience here that it seems unreal. and i can’t wait for the regularity of my classes and activities to kick in so i don’t feel the sense of chaos that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  have pretty reliable email delivery, but just in case some of you didn't get it, I'm reposting the email in its entirey below. This is also good ... control. There is still plenty of time to complete your application in time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time ... , sister, best friend, chickens, poodle) in the temperate rainforest of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... 's all, "Oh, I'll just do it tonight! Maybe you can come over and we can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic and that you'd appreciate the update. All I can say is that we're trying ... answered then. In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed! I know mine are.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a ... again. In summary, here is a concise blurb of what I have to say to you ... that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... my PE requirement in the last 6 weeks of college makes me "that senior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  organization on Harvard's campus. The shelter is in the basement of the ... '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... there ahead of me. Then, I wanted to climb up into the ventilator, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  these types of experiences. But she didn’t. In retrospect, I feel ... woman can emerge into her own The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011