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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who ... you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... tailored for robotics. I started trying to re-work my fall schedule. I had ... it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... seem to know another language because their parents or grandparents spoke ... reason. David, my freshman year roommate, was a Mexican who went to school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... .[/annotation] I remember the first time the world made sense to me was during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work. i don't want to program, i don't want to solve problem sets. i only ... comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... L. '22 and Derek Y. '22 to join and we head up towards a ramen place ... finals. It is good to finally be able to socialize with people without it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  back as my half blind Lolo would speed his way back to our house on the ... of my senior year of high school, I remember trying to figure out where I was going to apply. I knew that MIT was my dream school, no matter

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  . this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum ... you must discard down to seven. six. i didn't do much this iap and that ... -thirds of the way into book 3 of a practical guide to evil. i went on lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science

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

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... deliberation on this issue. Scientists point out that we need to reduce gas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class ... 2010. I am going to repost it as I wrote it: raw, and unedited, and ... struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  ? I wondered to myself. I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like it. Of course ... subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was. It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below, where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last ... ? When was it supposed to start?” “Half an hour ago,” said the other. They

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