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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... badly on the third exam, in which case, our fate of passing or failing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  asked in an advising survey whether or not my freshman year "met my ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... ], But Sooner Or Later I'll Graduate." Of course, new freshmen are to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Jazz (Ben has a Fender Jazz bass). In addition to the standard split ... 's freshman year advisor) I ran into him yesterday in Lobby 7, snapped this photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  's always nice to see the median voter theorem in action. What courses would ... Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to ... international development" from an economic perspective in previous courses, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... structure's looser here, but it's going to be something like that. Or maybe ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... the tarmac, or…or it's too crowded. I'm sure the pilot will explain to ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  are in a courtyard, physical or metaphorical, be alive. Pay attention to ... necessary. To take a break, or make a good cocoon, hunker down in a place as ... shaping the environment in one way or another according to the pattern that

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... needs to happen within the monolithic institutions in academia or profit ... fulfill me in different ways, and i need all three to be really happy me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  munchkin land, a train that goes to Oz, and a giant Oz head in the middle of ... . But you HAVE to show up on time, or you forfeit the points. Guess what I ... from Simmons to Main Campus in like 1:30"]borrowed his bike

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid ... away sleep, progress on my UROP, and writing blog posts in order to ... world feels too big to answer that yet. Did I enjoy living in Boston for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  installation of ski lifts in hell, or the release of a successful Blink 182 side ... got up at 5 to take the Fung Wah bus to Coney Island, or the all ... pouring rain to the Z center for dance practice, or feelings of panic and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... in his lap, and began to explain the search for a bizarre particle

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  organically in the form of a hobby, or perhaps an inspiring book. Others may experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or ... fairly incompetent in determining who you are or what you are capable of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  operations cause the king of the oceans to attack Wakanda in a desperate bid to ... first architecture college in the US? At MIT, she chooses to live in ... encyclopedic knowledge of composite materials to Wakanda, whether she wants to or

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or ... audience member in my own life? Recently, I dictated to my friend exactly the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  Machine) as well as some more recent movies set in underworlds or enclosed ... One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the ... over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... if there are that many sensations in the world that can compare to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  you forevermore. Maybe I'll feed them to Kerberos, or something. I did ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008