Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  back hurts. Attempt to go back to sleep. 9:32 AM: Attempt to go back to sleep failed. 9:33 AM: Facebook. 9:43 AM: Facebook apparently not miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  an honor to have been a part of the initial crew, and what a great ... he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  't really work out with my [annotation note="scuffy was an initiative to match ... MIT's campus. It only opened its doors to students this winter, so the ... 'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In between all of this, it's begun to hit me that I am now officially more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  though. I was actually excited! I was initially going to write a post about "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To ... offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... semester, it's easy to forget that there exists an entire world outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  returned to the kitchen, we found that I had somehow failed to preheat the ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite ... folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes failing. Eventually, he got a lot better at putting things back together. So

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... to?” This semester, I am taking two philosophy classes, though ... discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  Hear, Or Do Our Observables Fail to Commute?” an anonymous commenter on ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... met, to the numerous fraternities I visited, to the awesome trips to a breakdancing competition at Tufts University and my little venture to Chinatown

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... good at not succumbing to temptation. Did I tell you about the time I was ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  "usually fail." So I switched to 7.012 (which isn't as fun, because it's not ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  . I wanted to explain, "I have two more years to go! I didn't fail the ... Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  the litany of classes I initially put on my schedule and I set off to ... Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting multicolored, multi-ringed, colorful planning books complete with enough pens to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  interesting are words that attempt, yet sadly fail, to truly describe the event ... 'm Abir, a prefrosh, and I was fortunate enough to have the BEST host ever ... asked me to guest blog about CPW and I am going to try to give a glimpse

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same time. There was one other person from my high school coming to MIT the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  that you wanted to be more academic and rigorous, and failing your first ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012