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• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  going on that are pretty exciting, and for all of you '09s reading this, I encourage you to participate in all of it as Jessie and Mollie have both also said. I can say this from experience. It's a lot of fun; don't miss out.

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  a real meal in days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  wasn’t in the mood for another set of bad news. “No rejection today,” I ... inconvenient time in my life - I was right in the last week of my internship ... UROP. I had in the back of my mind, a reminder to make the poster for my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... : design and manufacture many many yo-yos. We're in groups of 3-6, and we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  --become the center of the universe." now i am sitting in the grass outside ... the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... . she condemned and mourned the deaths of the five police officers in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  about various MIT policies and policy changes - I put some of this in, but ... "vacuum" nature of MIT that he alluded to in his entry. Interestingly, I ... This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... how different the school's research philosophy was from that of MIT, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  . Chemistry (5.111) In the last two weeks of summer break, I decided last ... these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I ... AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can ... of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... presentation slides. I’m so proud of my teammates and grateful for their kindness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  change of major form. I declared a minor in computer science to put my ... change of major form cleared. I built an RC aircraft and made friends in my ... semester. I am now in the unenviable position of being a junior in sophomore

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... requirement was, in fact, one of the top reasons I didn't comMIT till late April ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly ... increasingly became one of few Black/Puerto Rican students in those classes ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  not enough for you I have five sessions of job interviews in the next ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  of interest to underleveraged students in the developing world, then I ... I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... masses yearning to learn. In support of his subversive educational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  think I've made a lot of steps in the right direction and I'm really proud ... having to reprogram all of that, and in these past four months, I think I ... what home is to me in such a short amount of time. When I think of home

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  , I'm in front of the camera for once! and to alleviate any concerns, we ... you can find your MIT soulmate - provided that both of you like each ... easy steps: ...I can't tell if crush.mit.edu is a self-mocking parody

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  in my senior year of high school, and how I’d finally carved a place ... , someone found a wheelbarrow in the corner of the room, and I was carted all ... known as CPW) was a whirlwind of constant adventure. What I wouldn’t have

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... by you I mean of course me, can't enjoy music the way you used to. Can ... different. That's all that I've been up to in this blink-of-an-eye of time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  , awesomeness in general. So I thought I'd write about some of the more awesome ... $6 or something. I was happy, like when you find 50 rupees in Legend of ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006