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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , like my minor, is in writing. I’ve been getting a lot of emails reminding ... love. The Class Council is giving away tickets to a lot of concerts in ... cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  take additional chemistry courses in the future. (3.091 is a good course ... very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so ... have predicted from the size of 7.012 in the fall - is small. We had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  like the plague, so being willing to practice it is a huge first step. MAS.111 is my HASS (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) class and a ... Media Lab research areas; documenting research progress; ethical issues in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  SIMPLE THINGS IN A WORLD DESTROYED BY EVIL ZOMBIES. YES. IT IS SO GOOD. Only reason it's not a 10/10 is because FF7 is reserved in that spot, tbh ... despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  things. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA - Accomplished! So this is kind of more ... was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  responses in one document so someone can read it. MIT is stressful and I don ... and accepted in a way I never really was before. Is everyone at MIT ... it reminds me a lot of my own CPW, though it may be taking place in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  -professor stereotype, so absorbed in [annotation note="for inevitably it is a he, a white ... in a finite wordcount is great. It was also just really fun. A year ago ... Future (a short story competition). Several authors I admire won this in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  , but my 2.009 group is currently going in a different direction... Oasis ... Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science ... secret is, freshmen are all dumb. What I mean is, people start on a pretty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  people is a useful skill in general and later on in life if you want to ... those words in a sentence where it kinda makes sense is very cool ... Jonathan. I joined the department as a postdoc last year. I'm interested in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... flying China Airlines and we actually had lu rou fan!. Lu rou fan is a ... course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  structures in the end. This is a typical time vs accuracy tradeoff (I as one ... is solved. I'll use all this in months to start developing a model ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my ... sterile environment (that is, a chemical hood). In addition to mastering ... . The first major step in making a hydrogel is weighing out all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and...it sure ... , actually. I love biology and I'm thinking about majoring in 6-7, which is CS and molecular bio, so 7.015 is a good time and I like that it's a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  and showed me that I was competent. I know a lot of this is in my head ... really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  [annotation note="Scratch is a unique programming language in that it isn't text ... , which I didn't really expect. CodeIt, in a way, proved that I am capable ... internship. Meghana K. '21, the [annotation note="A person on exec in charge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... literally wept in the center suite of my floor, a senior took my hand and told ... floor formal. Formal is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... in 6.813 (User Interface Design and Implementation). It is in this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  laughed, a lot. Laughed so much, in fact, that my friends sitting nearby ... that people didn't talk about. This is a post about health, and my ... Computer Science major, given how "superficial" of a topic it is. But every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... the antithesis in siddhartha, the protagonist siddhartha is raised in a ... in my opinion a bit absurd it is okay to make mistakes like getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022