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• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & ... . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... though, is 3.091, or, as some like to call it, "3.09-fun." Clever, isn't it ... As I told you in my last entry, my mother has become concerned about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... experimental class about a new or niche research area); in this case, it’s the ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  miss the freedom to be anywhere in town I want in 10 minutes or less by ... considering 6-2 with a potential minor in 2 or [annotation note="Alan: something ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... incredible. I get to cook dinner with my parents! Or go out with my friends! My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... over four hours or internationally.  I was really excited to enjoy my ... names! On the flight to Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  language, Scratch was an invaluable stepping stone in my journey to pursuing computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to ... Program (ESP) in which 7th and 8th graders come to MIT to take a variety of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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