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• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with ... excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of brutalist buildings — and uh, if I did, tough luck — and some study areas in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  ="a volleyball anime lol i'm not even interested in sports ... friends again, I can't help but reconsider anime's presence in my life. It ... damn hilarious. like, who am I??? Even in the months leading up to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... Lewis Music Library. People sleep in them all the time. I don't, because I ... . I've got a paper for 11.015 Riots Strikes and Conspriracies in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  honest, it's not like I would have been doing much else back in my dorm ... Intelligent Transport Systems Lab (as I did in the spring of 2009, before going away for the year) on a traffic simulation project in Singapore. I wasn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  I skipped. That would be my group's toy. What's it called ... : "I would like to thank Hasbro for all of the help they've provided us ... things end up on ThinkGeek and in stores everywhere. I'm taking SP.779 next

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  little '12 after my Facebook status because I'd been, in truth, intimidated ... -oriented school. Ohohoho, boy was I in for a surprise! The first night was ... community was quite closeknit in many aspects. I was just so glad to see that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  in the spectra of these compounds which would allow organic chemists to ... , Japanese, and two programs in Chinese. I do know two people who have taken ... course, I'm sure there are many, many great classes at Harvard in every

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

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  would allow kegs to be more safely and easily transported down stairs (I ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... Mechanical Engineers during their senior year. In this class, students learn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  , These are in-jokes which I would take too long for me to explain to you ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... Beethoven's 9th and Schubert's Winterreise, both of which I've sung in various

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were ... , Professor Patrick Winston. In my nomination of him, I wrote about the impact

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... get in before I graduate and the ultimate success, FIRST AUTHOR. As for

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... got locked into a narrow tunnel vision in which I only valued the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom ... increasing in uselessness.   I've been doing all that, and a lot of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... restaurants. When I tried to go in person last year, I gave up after waiting for ... is right in the middle of Chinatown, so I've walked by it countless

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

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  elementary/middle school, I would take a book, sit in an unoccupied section ... stark contrast, I was in marching band and on the quiz team in high school ... . Basically, I think we're going to have to sit in the back in 5.60 tomorrow so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... of two strings in cool patterns. I first got introduced to poi during ... done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  . In fact, I spent a good 20 minutes listening to some super ... picking something from the least brattiest band in the world. I settled on ... except for the counselors and it was the first time in my life that I felt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  the “p-set zone,” it helps us think in different ways than we would in ... these classes is that, while I gain the engineering skills in my Chemical ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010