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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also ... in a weird time zone, so I didn’t really have anyone to work together ... exposure to programming and Python. I was lucky enough to have spent a lot of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman ... Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to ... During first semester I published a nice little entry about my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... ’ll be hard, but I want to try. Give me a shot and you’ll see—I will try my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn ... . # When it comes to pen and paper of any sort, imposing order is a fruitless ... . To quote: It's funny how I feel a little bit frantic a low

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  precious time we spend after classes together twice a week to sing, setting ... take a nap. i think i'm exhausted: i think i need a week to turn off my ... , or guitar hero, or going to yamato's, or going to ihop after a formal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class ... different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same ... can power a LED that requires 3.5V for it to operate. Pretty cool

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  't really need it per say, but since I want to go into journalism, a writing ... self - aka we're going to be writing a memoir! The professor is Sherry ... -career Sloan Fellows...we also have to form a IT-based startup in a team...And I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... critical issue. Probably my sketchiest prefrosh moment was due to a lack of dining understanding (that's a story for a later entry, or for Laura to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... , you should know that at MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection

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

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... to do with peanut butter. Thirty minutes later we were still arguing. A ... discussion to a close, and at the end of the day, we accomplished nothing. No

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  asked the communications team to begin thinking about developing a new MIT ... website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... LOVED IT. We had a duty to our readers to come up with a way to offer just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a ... droplets rapidly to create a thin film, and then boiling away the solvent ... these ideas to minimize food waste there were quite a few other examples

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  finished counting, I had ended up with 28 shirts. I donated a few to the ... estimate. I sent those 28 shirts off to a nice Etsy store that turns your old shirts into a giant queen-sized quilt, and I'm SUPER excited to see it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... various commitments, I tend to punt a pset before I punt anything else

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend ... to interview a friend, a faculty member, President Reif, Barack Obama ... anyway...” Sometimes I’m about to start just as another blagger puts up a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  -contained. With the Meta, I had to be tethered to a computer the whole time. With ... camera over it and a digital gecko popped up to life on his wrist. His ... . He had to leave in a hurry, but he gave me one to try out - Horace the pig

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  . Whole Foods even has gluten-free bagels sometimes." Verified to have a ... as junk. Try to leave comments NOW.), so I haven't been around. But I'm here now, so it's okay! Or something like that. Moving on to the point

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... there's going to be a lot of talk about this over the next few months

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  front page of The Tech. Because, really, if you're going to run a marathon ... DID YOU KNOW? "This Jesus Must Die" from Superstar really sounds a ... have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006