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• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... office hours, I can look out my window and be reminded of the fact that ... ="225"] my makeshift desk (there's an actual desk, but the view is too

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  i had an essay i'd barely started that was due at 5pm. my friend casey ... , concentrating itself inside the depths of my heart, slowly growing as the night went on until i snapped, slammed my laptop shut, and went to bed

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  I texted my friend, "I feel like my frustration with 6.009 over the ... I started to doubt my plan to major in 6. But now that I'm coding ... fail on my own. Stretching my failing muscle and kicking learned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet, one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* After finishing my freshmen year, I followed the common ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this ... of conflicting feelings, now nearing the end of my UROP I have truly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a ... pictures on my phone for nostalgia purposes and I came across this: For ... confused and won’t understand things like my awesome hashtag.) For my year

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  MIT. Even though I have been repeating these phrases over and over in my ... discover. For some background, my high school was tiny. My graduating class ... from a meeting in 37-212. My first class tomorrow is in 34-101. If you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya ... suggested that I use my writing skills to help out and write up some profiles ... in between all of my other commitments. Since I was travelling a lot

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when ... like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book ... 've been around the world, on the phone, at the beach, with a boy. in my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... 'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic ... look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  Allow me to (re)introduce myself. My name is Chris Peterson. For ... complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on an unseasonably cold and rainy June day, I graduated from MIT, with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... who you are, that will make you really happy," my pikan friend (the ... surrounded by crazy people who love me. My home in Oregon was chaotic, noisy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before ... be rewarding in other ways, too; I've met some of my closest friends

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... , man), the blogs were my first window into MIT - my first glimpse into ... what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... already entered my mind. And we all know from Inception, an idea is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup ... ! Even my professor says so! Prof. Manalis has a really kind face. As in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most ... 't actually come in contact with since my senior year of high school. I'm going

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my comforter and reevaluate my dinner choices. (It's not as bad as it sounds

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012