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• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  .01/Physics I assumed that I knew, but I have been assured that 8.02 is a lot ... reading Vergil is like riding a bike, and you never forget? Maybe... I do ... that I'm doing a little excited dance: 🎶 Gonna learn so much stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  is... not my strong suit, so I needed a prompt that was relatively ... note="and i must clarify with the pain in my heart that i now also ... Kendall square to do our scheduled hangout idea. honestly this is probably a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  the 17th (but until I confirm that, it's not set in stone - after the EA mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to ... it, but I never do. We'll spend the next week preparing all of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... between MIT, a state-school that is giving you nearly a free ride, an Ivy ... because I had a sweet research job working in the labs of Massachusetts

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  news is that I might still get to meet a reality show contestant--I was stalking Diana Eng and I discovered that she is going to be at the seamless 2 ... casual conversation, I found out that he's a fourth-year government student

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  because I see that this is true — people in robotics have direct influence ... candidate for jobs in robotics. I started doubting myself a lot, worried that ... still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  showered since leaving MIT about 3.5 days ago, so I should probably do that ... just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a ... like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same ... Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  placement is everything. All I did in that cozy room was swap the bed and the ... . Which meant that I spent the busiest week of my year living in a half ... could do much better than that, so I just dove right in and started

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  doing math to hours I spent sleeping is far too high." Now that we ... took a lot of leaps in high school. But that doesn't mean I'm not afraid ... math majors do it. ***Story time!!!*** Once upon a time, I was really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... learned from a poster in my high school library when I was 13 years old ... the words that somebody is saying in another language, you can probably

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  . Anyway, one thing that I've started to do with my friends is playing the ... The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... emotionally taxing it is, because I miss deep talking with my friends a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  that I'm excited to see more of in my remaining half a year living here ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... daydreamed about getting a minor in political science. I also pushed Chemistry

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  , “Like is this a thing that happens in real life?” The photos of stock ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to ... do that?” he asked, flipping it around in his hand. “This thing has a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  , and a movie was made about it that I watched 3 times in one weekend. He ... essay that I thought I did well. But I would never wish to do it again. I miss listening to Indie pop. I miss discovering all of the music that is

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  build a viral events framework in a technology ecosystem), I've found that ... productive, tiring and relaxing at the same time. I've learned that Python is ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007