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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... into two categories, and the amount I spend on each category is extremely different. For me, I spend the mass majority of my time on my Physics and Real

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  common this is except for the fact that I know of no one else who does this ... say. The class is taught seasonally for Quarter 2 through Quarter 3 ... spring/summer). What was nice is the ice was reserved for class time, so I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... hours! Hurricane aside, the resort is designed to keep you constantly ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  the semester is stressful for everyone. For me, it's a plodding ... our calendars strain under the weight of obligation. Spring is short ... dollars for coffee; I like working in the library, but it was closed today

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  dancing. He showed clips from the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, of ... up my whole life plan and going for a Ph. D. literature, like the woman ... minds, the horizon is endless. It's time we take ourselves off the teams

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  to an reu, a research experience for undergraduates, which is the math ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to ... from dining for at least the next two months. there was this book

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more ... accidentally connected the tungsten stick to the welding arc (for context, this ... press the trigger. Electricity sparks and the world goes black except for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full ... competitive robot for an end-of-the-semester competition. 2.00b = Toy Design ... As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a ... Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is ... So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math and chemical engineering. [n.b. also see the story's homepage for a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  been going. 8.01L 8.01L is the bane of my existence. I'm pretty sure I'm ridiculously close to NR'ing it. For the past semester and a half, I've been ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  . Although most of the coordinating for our parties is done by our social ... One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... with your problem sets for the week (or even if you aren't...) and are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of concreteness, here is the course load: 18.02 Vector Calculus. This class is ... this class. It is indisputably the most time consuming, soul draining

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... much overlap there is with the on-campus info sessions. On campus, your

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons ... ). For an inspiring and entertaining read, I highly recommend the in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... future when the novelty wears off, but for now, it’s an exhilarating ... took calc my senior year, but didn’t get transfer credit for the class

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  get it right, the result is awesome. For the second photo, there ... for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the ... this under construction building that's way down the river. This is a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent ... late. I punted the task of finding a thesis advisor, a task necessary for ... having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022