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• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... comatose on a San Diego beach with some friends, I'm revisiting this entry. I started writing this on the plane home for spring break and never got around

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  respectful"]San Juan, Puerto Rico[/annotation] with 11 out of 13 of my living ... people at a club, and I saw another 20 or so on my 5 AM flight back to ... ). we also decided on having a rental car for four of the eight days we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade ... perceive my surroundings and their significance. A year ago today, I felt a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  my classes are on Zoom (or Whoosh for 6.031). Content-wise, all my ... like I just came from a chat with my friends about their spotify ... apartment) and on my way back, ran into the biggest protest I have ever seen

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  accessing MyMIT - we're seeing some unusually heavy user activity today (even ... , most MIT staff are out of the office today and tomorrow for the holiday ... news from our friends in IS&T. In the meantime, thanks for your

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... This is a quick read and I read it one day after complaining on facebook

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  exploring the strange places on campus, and it's the one reason I wish I had ... So in between reading applications I've been sitting in on CMS.790 ... lecture on fan studies. And who should walk in to deliver the lecture but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  on time as I always have been. Sorry about that. So. I graduated. And ... pre-determined station and then just stood around, chatting with friends ... lived through a few painful examples.) As annoying as it was, I have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  least a personality). Explore. Laugh. Live. Find friends to last a ... precisely a year ago, when I was but a newly arrived freshman on MIT's campus ... three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  . It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I ... you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had ... plural, I think, but no one asks me), so here are two pictures I took on my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... Burton Conner - rip Senior House) to paint murals on the dormitory walls ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  last summer, and I'm excited about catching up on House and Monk episodes ... watch TV during term. But House is on during cheerleading practice, so I ... and I go out on Friday nights, so I don't get to see Monk. But during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ’ve done some reflecting on what I’ve learned throughout these past four ... learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn’t recommended, even ignoring the effects it’d have on your sleep cycle or social

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  As part of the 2011 Early Action Telethon, today I had the ... . That’s right, if you don’t ask me questions on my blog, I will call your ... ’re just trying to help! I am really glad to have been able to answer some of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... upperclassmen who didn't mind helping me with a question on a pset Bryan: i

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long ... ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured ... spring semester learning more Python and more LaTeX showing off my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  you score a 5 on Calculus BC, you can get out of 18.01, Single-Variable Calculus. If you score a 5 on both Physics C tests, you can get out of 8.01, Physics Mechanics (you’re still on the hook for Electricity and Magnetism

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... - faced with decisions like where to live and to work. I didn’t have values ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free ... - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  't live in a vacuum, and it's stressful to waste energy and time on ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... more or less told the solution, wondering how on earth anyone could ever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021