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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  ! I haven't had to do that on a regular basis for what, four years? We ... 're doing. So far, I've been gaining a wide overview of how BNSF runs their ... of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  . Hasbro is AWESOME! I mean, let's face it, I work in a toy factory. Anywho ... I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action ... discount I got him at work for $7.00. My work has a toy store in it, does

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  like I learned a ton in the class, and I have accepted that there was no ... actually never thought I could do it.  I thought that MIT didn't give A's for ... something that I have wanted to do for a really long time and I am so excited

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my ... I've always said I don't believe in linear time, but this is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  do. But the summer is a totally different beast. I've compiled some ... semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... ? Well, I'm still in Boston! After all the fun that I had last semester, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  actually made me wish that I had been born a size zero woman so I could rock ... German I in Germany program offered by MISTI!! Do you have any friends who ... every person in the class was like "PFFFF! Can I take German I again? That

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  can't do it all. what ends up happening is that i end up doing mediocre ... attitude with work in the past, see e.g. there is no such thing as a typical day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  . Consider a droplet that is initially 1 mm in diameter. Its surface area is ... As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... that I am a biological engineering major. Moreover, even though I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  ALBUM IS SO GOOD. DO NOT CHALLENGE MY WORD.) I just ate a sandwich and a ... the ceiling of its main terminal. At least, I think that's what it is ... that just seemed like gross misuse of the Internet.) This is about how I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been ... workshop in Building N51 and saw for myself everything that they do. Check ... a little more - but in the mean time, just thought I’d share these

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  is time? I keep trying to type about things that are different, but ... the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... . But I admit that after countless nights in their room - the Toons after

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  began disappearing. I needed a job. I needed something to do at MIT that ... say that not only am I taking a full schedule but that I am also working two jobs (and doing a varsity sport). I maintain my sanity and so can

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  that occurred, as everyone in WILG seemed to start a project over IAP (I ... week and a half later. The bright side is that I now have Dayquil and ... . Normally I would say that sounds like a really bad idea, but it hasn’t turned

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  have a really fun time in the process. I just have to remind myself that ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... together that weekend. I wanted to do those things so badly, but whenever I

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... common theme I've noticed is that a lot of this is self-imposed, that I ... I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... should have left us (opening the trunk on a Volkswagen Golf is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math Level IIC and Physics in SAT II, will that over-ride my bad SAT I ... that your voice is represented, that's a BIG problem. "If I don't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  me some credit, people - I'm not that big of a nerd, although I do ... and what you guys do sounds really cool. Can I have a UROP?" It couldn ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  , that is a seemingly necessary part of this process, I didn’t want to lose ... back at joining a frat, i want to be able to do that knowing that it was ... .  I know life is short, and that the opportunity of a lifetime only

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but ... course every semester, the majority of what I do is solving problems. There

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011