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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936 ... comfortably. So for a one-hour class, you have to budget two hours of your day ... of it in a row. That means that you have to plan for a two-hour block

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... the corners of my time. This is not to say that I don't care for my ... that makes it so much easier for one to continue writing, to continue

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  , and I finished. Now I get to go home for ten days. I get to prepare for ... feeling is for as long as I want to feel it. I start walking towards Next ... need to push through another semester and exceed my own expectations for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  lightheated... And then people went for it. By 5pm we were able to catch ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly ... before we realized we simply just needed to get outside of our room. We

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  appreciation for the enlisted troops that I'll one day have the opportunity to ... opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future ... to have it again. Then, for dinner, I had another omelette! Wow! This ... ) let them cook for as long as needed and 2) just use my hands to flip

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars ... /no record was a great opportunity for me to experiment with my studying habits ... magical academic policy that allows students to see their final grade for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... make its bread. I have unlimited respect for anybody who managed to pass ... -out day, make a train reservation for 6 AM, and then go to 6 flags until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  : I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for ... was back to cramming for finals. I did have friends who came to visit Boston during two separate weekends, which made for some nice excuses to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... equipped for is the sort of conversation we hope to foster on the blogs. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  is that it's really too cold to go outside and play for any significant ... Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry ... year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... house, looking for people to bother. I spot Noah in the basement. "What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to ... to sign up for 11 hours of classes. I don’t regret making that decision ... presentation of the material. I did need to lecture for some of the time, which

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the ... things. Here are some highlights. Learned how to weld for 4.314! We also ... former US Ambassador to Russia.   Got wet lab training for my UROP

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  is easy, right?   It's hard to stay away for MIT for long before ... - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  problematic for us. In this example, having experience does not work to your ... difficult aspects to articulate. For instance, paper airplanes….. This is how ... airplane example. He listened to what I told him, paused for a moment, then

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the ... the green building to make a test for Borderline while Danny did ... Borderline (a general one, just to refresh on how unity works, and then one for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  Francisco for the summer. After talking to a number of groups working on ed ... will also be difficult, as it is for any teacher, to keep the whole class ... week (more on that soon) and am here to spotlight an incredible project a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013