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• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  pineapple instead of a bouquet of flowers, which made my night even better ... outlet—dance—since i no longer have time to read or paint or do any of the ... first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  one with one thing on our to-do list, which was to get our fortunes read ... a car and driving to Texas. Of course, nothing is that simple. The ... Houston on foot. So, after a lot of deliberation, we decided to cut the trip

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  and the leader of what is now my lab, my resume. He forwarded it on ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  example, for 7.012, we're given a list of topics to review, which is a handy ... Monday, so time is money, which leads to... create a study plan I start off ... examples that have shown up on past exams or psets. I like to add key points

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  doorway. Brenda is bubbly and sweet and used to live on this floor and is ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... went on my laptop to look up nearby piercing parlors and pictures of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  enjoyed, despised, or wholeheartedly attempted to read this summer. Of ... to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... , which started to turn me off about a third of the way through. However, he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  home to many a transgenic fruit fly and is slightly remniscent of Amy ... the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor ... cross-register (paying full MIT tuition, which you kind of have to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  way which saps away any hint of other emotion, positive or negative ... Desk. Instead of LA or grading roles, I am doing policy research on ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  spec poetry, which is lovely to find out. I wrote a few of these and ... of work. Poems are a great way to try out new ideas, or condense ... after I cut out a stanza or two, reducing the poem to 75% of its original

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... be available on ______________________ and I will mail or fax them to ... accepted during Early Action. The Midyear Report is to be completed by you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  is I! Yes I will be sitting on the panel of three judges along with ... ). Plus, I heard a certain Tim Beaver is planning on being there to get his ... ://lmc.mit.edu/battle. Battle of the Bands is put on by the MIT Live Music Connection ( http

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to ... [annotation note="'43 Orders of Magnitude' which is a sort of humanities ... ="Fluid Physics"]8.292[/annotation], all of which I was planning on taking anyway

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... cofounders of MakeSchool (his partner, Jeremy, is also on extended leave from ... food poisoning or stomach bug that manifest on the flight over, so had to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  , neither of which are actually related to math itself. Or maybe it was ... , working out how to compute integrals on my own or creating new methods of ... . Hmm. Well, I'm almost sure there's a tour of the Media Lab (which is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  It [program description] MIT CodeIt is an outreach program which aims to ... Program (ESP) in which 7th and 8th graders come to MIT to take a variety of ... (6.009, Fundamentals of Programming) which I hope to LA in the future

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this ... technical to business, which is great because I think most of us are too ... continued to hone his development skills since then, working on a plethora of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  Stud. Most food on campus is a tad expensive, so I often opt to make my ... . When I couldn’t think of anything to draw on my second drawing out of ... day, I might have to do CPR on it. I have a bunch of stickers on it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  one or this one? Craig: The symbol on the left is not a letter, sir ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to ... to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  hide and a place to seek from a list of 20 locations on MIT's campus. Your score, which you aim to maximize, is calculated as (the number of ... "]animated visualizations[/annotation] to better see how the game played out on campus. Where

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... whether a piece of writing is beautiful or not) is derived from that first ... , calling to the surface a sense of pacing and beauty—on the sentence level

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025