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• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting ... . Soon after, test grades for 6.005 came out. I got a 78 on the test. That ... Cambridge for the first time and set my sights on being a software engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the ... , or collecting a large set of people named Josh to fight for the right ... Market, a tourist attraction with notoriously high prices, for the sake of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... in the end I wished I had another week, just for the students. I stayed ... . I came home every day for lunch with the family, napped, ran, read

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... 2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... perpetuates the technical bias pervasive at MIT that the value of a field of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  the angle I was working on for quite a while. I still have an entire ... ! Writing the Paper For a paper like this one, where you create something and ... the paper for a photoshoot or something. There's also a lot of specific

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... ], and I often go together. We bob around in the water for a bit, clamber ... to ride a bike for the first time. I was wobbling, even toppling over

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... , MIT is the best at that, right?” “Well, I learned a ton, that’s for sure ... . One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very ... counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... , this semester has given me a much greater appreciation for what it means

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  bioengineering programs in the country. But not all of them were a good fit for me ... has a set of rules. Learn the rules. For example, there are some math ... , in general. Where you end up for grad school has less to do with the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  coder as well as a mentor for a middle school team, and I loved the entire ... great! For the five-year plan, a few months ago I finally convinced ... stress. I like to blame MIT for making me a masochist, but the reality of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Decade in Online Posting looking back: from the forums to the blogs

  

  result—I’d get into the habit of it for a few days, and then I’d stop, more ... decide."]and I'm in a dilemma.[/annotation] Should I go for the school that ... out of place, save for a chair out on the balcony that was slightly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... fifteen days. At four separate times, the TAs for the class emailed out ... to tap xylem and phloem in the tree. The web secretes enzymes and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... for our living spaces, and 2. the free art is REALLY GOOD. the program is called SLAP, which stands for the student lending art program, and i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  times where you think "ok, this it the last time FOR SURE", but after a ... Webster's dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used ... :   It's good for you   You see, in the many conversations I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... ! I took improvised solos for seven years. I joined the middle school ... before the start of the solo, he would give me a smile and a nod. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  date. the new gym will be live in a year. sorry for the lack of good ... residents can tap into 24/7. Since the [annotation note='the primary gym for ... be confused with the homonymous dorm. this is instead referring to a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... ’ve dropped them from standing height. Once, I dropped the T27 onto a hardwood ... . My parents gave me my MacBook Pro as a gift before I left for MIT. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012