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• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... -watching shows in the dark hours of the night. As a nocturnal creature known as a freshman, I have heightened attention in the early morning hours before dawn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in ... weekend. In previous years, I’ve been woken by everything from Fall Out Boy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... experiences in my life. BUT after two days we found a place that a) would allow

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  reading about topics in philosophy when I have downtime. I don't know if it ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but ... are conferences happening in this space. There were no people in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... . Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... in mind that all libraries are good boys, and therefore these ratings ... dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... . These opinions are in every way my own and don’t reflect Google’s views ... Carnegie. I digress. 8:45am, Elements Cafe: Arrive from the 71C bus in time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... perfectly good jobs in mechanical engineering everyone, even if they don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  ’ll look different. No one will notice.” The first shifted his weight in his ... of the world was overcast, but somewhere in the Pacific Ocean a cruise ... and Harvard bridges and, in boats and on the bank, the stretch of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... overnight supervisors in the dorms. So I started teaching at TDI 10 years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  Lots of students make money during term by working in their UROPs ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... . (Disclaimer: I did always have an interest in bioengineering, but i just didn

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... smaller classes in which you review the lectures and ask questions about problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006