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• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... senioritis or my loathing of AP Stats and yes, I would go see my doctor if she ... would work here, and the test and quiz I had scheduled for today needed to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  isolated and it was inevitable that I would need a car. But the car was in Colorado, I was in Cambridge, and my job was in Oregon. So that began my ... in the future. I am spending the summer in Bend, OR, a small city of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that ... . =) Played in an Assasssins' Guild game, where I ended up trying to conquer the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... time for thinking. My mom, back in Tucson, would still be awake. I ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  would be stuck in it, especially since I didn't get to go to my CPW and ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... didn't hear you; I have a banana in my ear. RESIDENCE-BASED ADVISING WILL

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  About a year ago, in the midst of job recruiting season, I wrote a ... about something relatively trivial in the scope of things. I was really ... for Girls in various combinations, I totally bombed the last AMC I ever

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Jepsen just had a large impact on everyone's psyche in elementary school. I ... , her album E•MO•TION came out in middle school. I remember coming across ... was right, because i am not in fact the biggest fans of those subjects

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... changed about the situation i was living in, i felt my bedroom grow a little ... , exciting!) the rhythm of life in simmons is, like i said, much like my life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, and I'd guess that number will be in that neighborhood again ... action decisions in mid-March. In my experience, I don't find extra formal ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... taking a gap year; so i would be around the area, you know, i’d be seeing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person ... contributed to MIT in so many ways that I wouldn't know where to begin. So, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  that I'd imagine different people are interested in. In the end, I decided that I'm just going to write about everything I'm interested in ... course, puzzlehunts aren't just about the puzzles. In my previous post I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  would you be in Tucson? Who would you be in art school? I didn’t have the ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as ... and terrifying. I warned the back half of the line that the wait would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  class numbering system. It would’ve been so cool – I was going to code up ... specific, I know). CJ has written extensively about these old catalogs in ... Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember ... . I'm warning you now. With this in mind (the world, not parenthetical digressions), I spent a year abroad as an exchange student in Taiwan the year

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in ... . It started with butterflies and dragonflies, but eventually I fell in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your ... circuit theory and printed circuit boards in general. I've discovered that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013