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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... explore a new, but related, field. I ended up choosing a lab in the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I ... Tuesday evening with a breakdown in Walker Memorial, and when I got back, I ... Tuesday night was fading, and though I knew logically in my head, that I had

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  there were a Ph. D. in learning everything, I would do that," said Sal ... 2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  . Today, in lecture, we learned about epinephrine. And of course, what would ... So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  in my emails.I do not know how not to Feel, Think, or have things Seem To Me. I am self-conscious about the number of "I"s in my writing ... the correct times in the correct ways. As I dug down to [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  realized that the big school i got into would actually be better for me, but ... friends drank at bars decided that black is my best color played outside in the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  ’s not just academic exhaustion. If it were, I would know how to handle it ... explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of ... happenings in my life. It's not a bad feeling, necessarily. I hardly notice it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  . I whipped out my camera and we agreed that whatever it was, it would ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More on that later. I looked this up in Wikipedia and turns out, St. George

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... surprise when I told them about my decision. Their main point: why would I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the yarn intertwines, my heart can mend too. I never realized I would ... . Who would've known that ten years later, I would still be knitting? I ... pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... . It was kind of a given that there would be a paper, and that I'd get to ... generally disdain the reporting about MIT in the Boston Globe, I did like the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  [/annotation]? Will the class be fun and engaging? What value would I get from taking this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... taking. In order, they are: Will I thrive in this class if I took it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... of this squeeze I had left in front of me: Needless to say, caving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... breaking it, and offered helping in any way he could. I was baffled by the ... in 2:24pm: i text the person who emailed 2:57pm: the person roller

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  modification of language which many people would think of as controversial. I don ... idea in itself. It would take a period of getting used to, but we know ... would make sense in a professional setting like an HR department. But

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily ... tunnels, or the fact that my host and I found an elevator in the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... Things I Love About MIT (or at least it would be, if such a list actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008