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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  wants, what they are afraid of, while at the same time sharing with them ... week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  single one of the classes I have taken so far at MIT - whether it's organic ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  ).  And at this time of year especially, I'm usually back on the computer ... hopping with great things going on.   Come to think of it, I'd rather be at ... two nights at the Marriott in Cambridge?" asked my partner now peering

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  't know how at all, and I failed a bunch of tests. Miserably. And I had all ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  make a living out of making rhymes.   Laughed at bad ... Joseph Ducreux ones, because at one point of my life, I sort of wrote like ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... wouldn't be doing the day justice if I put it at the end of this one. ... Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... Mesopotamians were at the pinnacle of metallurgy and urban living, 500 years ago ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... ARTalk lets us share these more fun-filled moments with the rest of you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  my boyfriend's door is pretty good at attracting the ladies. Here ... fogey of an iPhone that still runs on Edge is faster than Chris's 3G iPhone at opening his door every single time. Other things it beats Chris

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO ... until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  yourself - at least it did for me.    Probably like most of my peers ... making decisions. Because at the end of the day, you aren’t alone. Yes, I ... Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  . Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination ... perfectionists, at least a little bit. A quick survey of my friends suggested that ... I have long been a fan of the corner of the internet known as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it's part of our ~MIT experience~ so we’re including it anyways) 1. We had ... make it at least 1 minute (!!!!). This made both of us super exited

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... ) resulted in a score of -313, but at least it returned something! Baby steps ... describing my sophomore year right now. This was me at the beginning of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  leading a village of Vikings. It's good to be back at school--see you all ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other places) lots of people place their trust in software--software that flies

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and I envision swarms of anxious seniors staying up at night over one ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  one of the coolest project classes at MIT. I'll be sure to make a post ... 'm currently acting EIC of Technique, the yearbook and design club at MIT. Each ... /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013