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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics ... have also taken very few of those. My perspective is that of someone who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two ... others, attempting things on my own, doing drills, and talking over ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  simpler. I was in China visiting relatives all IAP. That would be my last ... from my shoulders. I left it in my dorm room while I was away. I figured I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not ... least a 100 point difference SAT-wise between my writing and CR scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... be in a space where I could see my impressions of my peers’ work ... the writing.  This was also my first explicitly genre-focused class. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... 'm kinda ashamed that I'm faking my way through the humanities requirement by ... a kind of breach to it, I think. You could say that my writing isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it mostly centers on feeling good about my output. i've talked about my ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note ... times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen ... see what I was working on from my obnoxiously large monitor. For the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  into my head when I was twelve, that it wasn’t safe, that it was ... . It was far less scary and far less complicated than it was in my head ... buildings[/annotation]. Part of my role involved confronting people, terse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  which (especially the second one) had the overall effect of lowering my ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... waste, I'm going to write this blog post as captions on photos. My first ... . It changed wholesale my image of China. I had always thought of China

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . sitting on my mcat books but specifically only the one I was currently using ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... against my arm specifically so I can’t type but most importantly, 5

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... grand adventure. The pieces of my life have, more or less, fallen into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman ... why in particular, but for a while I've been questioning my place at MIT and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a different room now, because my previous room was a double, and only frosh have doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  finances? Me?? It's more likely than you'd think... I'm the treasurer of my ... enough from my many posts about student life and my living community, cultural preservation is extremely important to me. Given that my dorm is now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my ... down, hoping that my life will unfold like a romantic drama where a stranger suddenly appears in my life and we fall in love and live a long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... not. Access it through your MyMIT and submit it by Feb. 15! Now, if you ... in school. I don’t have grade updates because: my school doesn’t do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018