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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... :23pm on Thursday, May 12, my work at MIT was done. Like many other ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... nights ago, I cut across Killian Court on my way home from campus. It was ... evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... session on the Dot being held by a mutual friend, Christian Ternus '10 ... hooked on high dynamic range (HDR) photography, so he had been roaming

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last, though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet ... and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... 'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about that helped me navigate this ocean. I intended this post to be ... helps inform how you choose classes at MIT or beyond. There are three ... ="MIT technically allows this. There's no cap on the number of classes you can take

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  't completely easy. I still had to ask for help on questions, but when explained ... . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , there were peers who were spending more time on the psets and not finding

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... . Some ISEF alumni, like Feng Zhang, are even on the MIT faculty. I got into Phoenix around 3AM on Thursday morning after a long, delayed, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  above into a wine glass on the ground holding two ends of cable, thus ... even after two watches. with everything going on—the music, the sound of ... equipment before class. the Stata R&D pub, on the other hand, was an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  I do not know if I have mentioned this on the blogs or in public, ever, but I am actually majoring in mechanical engineering. I went on a ... the collet on a mill gets stuck. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  criticism on how cringy freshman year Nisha [annotation note="or still am idk ... taken that spot), B'z is not on Spotify and it hurts me everytime i think ... meant to catch up on steins;gate 0 but never did, i watched some amount of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  . Li notwithstanding, I ended up becoming the chef on Saturdays at pika last quarter. A bit of background: pika, a 30-person independent living ... seafaring (riverfaring?) vessels on the Charles, three bread machines, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  clubs and this entire flavor of career. I’m still on the mailing lists ... on free food and branded merchandise for members.” Taking non ... decided on 18.032. I dislike black-boxes—a system that functions with opaque

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  and discusses a lot of interesting topics on how AIs use maching ... our own!) computational model and write a paper on it, which i'm excited ... the textbook for the class, and lo and behold, its super helpful. if i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... incredibly helpful men, respectful and supportive male supervisors, and men who ... February, former Uber employee Susan Fowler posted “Reflecting on one very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  S. '16 for her help waterjetting!  Amusingly, one of the robots on the ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... 're not entirely comfortable turning on, part choices, and Arduinos, maybe

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... living in the city, you'd have a bike stolen at least once -- if you were

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009