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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  't want to miss the chance to go say hello to Peeto. You see, Peeto is ... side, which is not where people tend to concentrate, so we didn't see ... " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and information - 6.7800 This is MIT's grad inference and information class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... you learn a few things in this class, but mainly: what is the formal

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  possibilities. I am from radios blaring and pop music, And no, it is not too ... by a musician is that the poems turn out quite pretty. The cool thing ... . To be honest, I was pretty terrified. This is the poem I read. Six

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  , which is a bummer considering how when I got into MIT, I texted my friend ... just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same ... realized that, though; they stopped offering 5.60 which is the full semester

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  Fest. - SpringFest is MIT's annual concert where we bring in a super cool guest (in ... free tickets from MIT Course 6 department to go to the Grace Hopper ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  living at MIT since it's so easy, healthy, filling, and storable. Quinoa is ... 's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since ... understand when I say “Hi I’m [Debbie], my major is [undecided, but ... , TechCash is awesome, and we had $20.11 in honor of our 2011 class! (Later

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  amazing. I wrote this essay during my freshman fall here at MIT and thought ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal ... through 12, 13, even 14 years of school. What is four more at that point? Or

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench, a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  MIT, won the Nobel Prize in Economics (officially, the 2021 Sveriges ... someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of ... . Much research that happens in economics is very different from what you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  people, horizons beyond horizons" (人外有人，天外有天) - this kind of mileage is ... basketball confusing (it is still, to this day). How are you supposed to know ... meters. Later, I realized that this is where the coach put all of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96-page tome emblazoned "MIT CPW" in bright tangerine and maroon block type ... discussed, possibly because of the challenge describing it poses. It is the

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... very different from each other, but i don’t think one is more interesting ... . this is a disorienting realization to have because i’ve spent my whole

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... another semester I’ll have to take it with class C which is an estimated 20 ... .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  sorrow, but somehow, emptier than I had ever felt before. “Your joy is your ... sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup ... ? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really ... Tech is still getting printed and distributed to the dorms, so I was able ... the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I'm currently ... ="when your vision is encircled by hundreds of tiny pinpricks until you can ... calm myself down, which is why I am BEWILDERED about doing it while half

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  's going on?" Friend: "..." Me: "...is that a parade?" Friend: "..." Me ... surprising -- it is, after all, a port city -- but that's far from all that makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011