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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  I sat down to have my 3 hours of lecture spat at me right in a row ... College, I am one of 17 math majors (mathmos as the natives say) who is ... examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Science this summer is kind of cool, but I can't wait to get back into saving the ... single so much as I do having my nice little bed tucked in the corner of my ... , even in the middle of summer. You don't get it in restaurants and you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite ... be rewarding in other ways, too; I've met some of my closest friends ... MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  American communities. I can't promise you the answers to all of your ... causes where I can make a difference. While in grad school at UD I had the ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  taking better care of myself. I can’t control the unexpected things in ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  “I can count the number of assignments I have left on my fingers.” The ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... tree). In Fresno, California, most of the time you can’t even see the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  , interviews were in frequency of about two per week, and I was focusing more on ... post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to ... . I didn't know how to do any of it. The next day in class we got them ... semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  weeks. If I can summarize this section in one sentence it would be the ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... decisions. Wow I love that place. Spinach can be hidden in literally any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad ... - Go through some of the MASLab tutorials so that I can be useful to the ... school? I went to a very rural, very public school in the middle of nowhere

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of ... first week of classes. CMS.S60 Rap Theory and Practice I'm taking two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort ... students succeed even after years of being told that they can't, and I want ... life, and when I try to think of my future in a way that doesn't involve

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... have played a role in some of these things, it isn't the whole story. I ... :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  the world can be enticing. So, in the true fashion of MIT students, I ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... people in offices I didn’t know existed. MIT has offices full of people who ... -2 and 4-B, but I'm also interested in a bunch of classes in courses 2, 11

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  Thursdays, I was the sole representative of the project in attendance. So that ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  burden of doing shows and buidling sets and whatever, I can't even imagine ... Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  about you, but I remembered the first half of my senior year flew by in no ... building! - because I wasn't in Taipei. But you can look at it on Youtube ... blog that I ever composed. I started the entry in Taiwan, edited most of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008