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• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2 ... . and i'm there multiple times a month, and it is a joy to keep him in my ... life is more calm than it used to be in a way i didn't use to appreciate

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  there is a lot of truth in that. Fundamentally an admissions process is ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK ... , currently named Bump, is a hands-free baby gate that will detect whether the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate concern. But in honor of "Patriot's Day" (I honestly never quite figured what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  usually have 2 psets a week, but this week I also had a presentation in one ... Methods In Aerospace Engineering" but I think a more appropriate name would ... . The class is centered around a semester-long group project where we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast Portland, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound teen is a leader in the school wood shop ... his parents each got laid off in recent years. Dad Scott Zinser is now a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in June. I’m currently on a one-year Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. After ... they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... 's post or Cam's post, you've probably gotten the idea that driving is a bad

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  with new people. and there's a decent chance your partner is in a close ... Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... freshman year[/annotation] and with a senior in my direct social circle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  often who is a part of your support system. Thus, the person you get in a ... world. This is unsurprising for a field (again, stereotypically) devoted ... some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  . Story Collider is a podcast showcasing stories in science, and I basically ... , which is really cool. It’s exciting (though perhaps a bit more stressful ... important to the health of the club that we had a change in leadership. The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  home (MIT, that is; home would've been 10 minutes further in a different ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... are exec members of various clubs. Living in a house is entirely ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  . ----------- Shocking observation: Sir Mix-A-Lot's song Baby Got Back is featured in ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... ! Another factor I'll have to consider when selecting a class is whether they

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... got a low grade on an assignment in a science class and the teacher ... mother's say (to her) that I only got in because I was a girl. My internal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Stonehenge is not in Scotland. Okay, another cop-out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... wonderfully noisy dream about a Course 10 '07 and a Course 10 '08 involved in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... ? Reality check: There are only 24 hours in a day, and 7 days in a week. When ... who thinks that the only way to learn a lot is to take a lot of classes

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  ", a term coined in the film, implies that the movie is made under a ... There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008