Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  . He was single. The other one decided to stay for CPW, even though he ... . Anyways, we then headed over the McCormick to eat some good takeout food for ... weather is supposed to be ‘rainy’ for CPW weekend, but it always

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  select 5 integers in the range 1 to 50, inclusive. For each integer k you ... based. However, this game stood out to me as different for two reasons ... ended up 42nd. For Round 2 and 3, which were chosen to be school and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  an advertisement for Fall Career Fair on the back page. That means an ... jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT in comMITment, the freshmen are not. Personally, I applied to MIT ... 10) for 30 minutes, reverted to Mechanical Engineering (Course 2 ... years to (1) decide on a major and (2) wait for avocados to go on sale. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... to deal with personal matters: a friend left on leave, bonds broken ... up, and learn from mistakes, too. I had to search for new options, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  later that the hike up to Jesus is infamous for robberies. Thank you ... mood for some R&R. We added Feyi to our travel crew and drank some ... are SO CHEAP!) taxi to La Mariscal for dinner. The restaurant we chose

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Harvard to small highway to Watertown. MIT is in a prime location for you to ... liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... 't wait to get back to MIT, especially considering that she took 6 classes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  found myself rambling to my TA over email and to my professor in person ... and help to pave the way for the pro-market, small government wave of ... be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on ... , but I was too hosed to write new content for it; instead I submitted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... ="96825" image2="96826" /] And then as if to say sorry for the cold, the White ... this up goer five thing ended, since I wish nothing but to use normal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... again like episodes of Seinfeld after 1998. This led to the equation for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  for her. Since the breakup, I've felt like things are just happening to ... to the fact that for all my life, I've had a plan. Since elementary ... months to look like. To throw away my stable, healthy future for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  dorm, went to advising meetings and chose classes for the first semester ... for the most part, i would still say yes to many spontaneous plans ... , while trying to find fulfillment for the poet inside of him. i had fun

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  to give it another going over. This time we made time for a photo op ... nights. The last chance for us to race together. Our chance to prove that ... length of our cooldown for it to sink in to me-we had made the podium! But

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  being denied access to a place that is a home for my hopeful heart and ... and finally say the words I had been dying to say for so long. I could ... part of our community, for wanting to live in a place where we can forget

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... to music for a bit, think about how much work I had to do, think about ... ’m excited for the semester to be over so soon, not because my classes are hard

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better ... , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I ... Take me away, to better grades Take me away, warm summer days Take me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  comfy little bed and move them like my biology intended for me to do. I ... living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking ... to teach you all a very valuable lesson about studying for ASEs… MIT

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  chance for us to talk to some of the inmates, and for them to talk to us ... incredibly friendly. They were very willing to talk. Lee spoke for a little ... ’s something I’m grateful for, something I try to pass on to the other inmates. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  school, and for the most part that turned out to be true, though they ... struggle to remember what it meant for math to not be proof-based). You ... for sure that I wouldn’t have been able to handle 18.701. There are

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017