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• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more later?). My roommate also just proposed that we figure out how to simulate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent ... ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In either case, I always have my Taylor Swift playlist close by so I’m always

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  conventions, poster presentations, etc. do it). Thankfully, my friend Courtney D ... check out our projects. (Awkward selfie with my face and an equal size version of my face projected on the screen behind me.) It got crazy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... about my UROP   ^_^ It all started back in March, when I began poking ... bioEE UROP - that is probably my ultimate field of study - but then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and ... people took to find it. Our friend found it in less than a week. But alas

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... in admissions (‘twas the season) and doing whatever my heart desired. I ... were really interesting (my subtle hints to get you to consider courses 1

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  there are two days in my life that felt quite similar: September 11th ... perceive my surroundings and their significance. A year ago today, I felt a new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  coming up, my friends and I tried to plan something fun and off campus ... Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  in Calculus" quickly became my best friends through long sleepless ... (the tagline is my favorite line from Wicked, hahaha - how ... to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  Alright, my first serious, thought-out blog entry in quite some time ... people and hang out with friends. "Taking advantage of Pass/No Record" is ... learned more than I've probably ever learned during my first semester here

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  frozen milk chips in your cereal the next morning. =) In other news, my ... dorm will pay for it (or at least subsidize the cost.) My GRT (grad ... of my life, my floormates and I packed our bags and headed up to New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Oh my God. I was peacefully watching Veronica Mars last week, when ... totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and ... more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  that I'd used MIT Resources more my freshman year to learn about grading ... early morning adventure with your friends and neighbors. Try unexpected ... the mistake of trying to load up on “challenging” classes my fall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  easily recognized as prefrosh by a friendly Course 5 senior. During the ... friend knows: if you're sleeping at CPW, you're doing it wrong. Friday, 7 ... for masochists") lecture, wearing my Maxwell's equations t-shirt, which

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  other hand, was most excellent. My friends and I were especially excited ... ). After the baseball game, me and my friends agreed to go to the Vans store ... Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is ... had to read five such essays and this was my favorite. Despite not ... is another lame play. Fefu and Her Friends (18k words). MIT Music and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  familiar pieces being sung by my friends: Davie '12 was Aeneas (I used to be ... semester Having musically-inclined friends (and a relative) at MIT Having ... Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat ... class. there's still a ridiculous amount of snow. 10:05. my first class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  the room as I stretch, roll my shoulders, and approach the squat rack ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy ... on my part. I happened to pod with someone who knew how to do squats

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  different sources — from my friends rather than from institutions, from a ... ."]urgent[/annotation] to think about as I end my time at MIT and “move on” to the next phase ... ’ve thought about measuring success in my life.  meaning: This section is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020