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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  Failure's Greatest Hits, including “Never Got to Finish Biology Test, Part 5 ... twelve times a year, depending on how much you liked math). Sometimes, you ... Finish Biology Test, Part Five” last weekend, which segued tunefully into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  playing the lead part and kept inviting people to watch him perform. Because really, one of the best parts about college theater is watching your ... Wikipedia for that ;) - I had a great time watching Dirty Hands. The set was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  whether or not it's possible to calculate something in finite time. At the ... 't really like the new curriculum, but for the most part, it seems to me that ... , is teaching part of it, and he's just generally awesome. It think that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  responsibility apparently has to do with novel concepts like time management and ... the part where it’s currently 77 degrees in South Florida, while here it ... essential part of the Haus. Three hours later, though, a few students and one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  ="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of ... that taught me a lot, but it was a hefty time commitment, and after ... Missa, Junior year definitely was a rough time. Most of high school feels

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  . For me, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. I started ... . (The first lecture says that they'll be using Linux for the most part ... . Honestly, I don't know if I'll get to these goals in time, since I know that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... :00AM if your heart desires. 3 Not-the-Best Parts of living in Maseeh 1 ... features of my room 1) Fireplace. There are a few unique parts of Maseeh

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  we parted ways. After taking the Silver and Red Line back to Kendall ... a few times to avoid snowy weather, mostly because I still have yet to ... 's even a special part of the tunnels underneath building E18 that smells

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  the time. I got to try out new frameworks like p5.js and paper.js and ... each time, so each session felt more like a discussion and shared art ... part was structuring that large, complicated codebase in a way that was 1

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate ... part of the FPOP actually ended up being learning about rocket propulsion ... … freedom :D But what to do with it?   “What time does the [annotation

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  't necessarily vibe with the floor culture at the time. Cultures aren't static ... for one to preserve communities like this in extended periods of time ... shirt emblazoned with a community's logo to be a part of it. I could meet

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... to explore these parts of myself I never felt comfortable being so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the ... participate in discussions jointly, and vice versa. We spent our time together

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  great, and they have helped me so much with improving over time. I went ... inspirational things for Valentine’s Day as a part of Operation Post-It, and I ... and sister who came to visit me for the first time just in time for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my ... the intrinsic properties of space and time, and then deduce how they ... , with Buckethead immediately to follow. To while away the time, Buckethead

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  and dusted with cayenne pepper. The first time I slivered the crisp pink ... dishwasher several times, run downstairs to the pantry/meat freezer/fridge, and ... penned dining section articles for the New York Times in my head while

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT ... the same building, or even the same room, for nearly all of their time ... comes to visit, spends time hanging out, and even who ends up deciding to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  jerk all the time. I mean, not all the time. Today I was looking at an ... 4 years at MIT, if you ever ask yourself, "Do I have time for a ... X3, one of my favorite movie moments of all time. I was considering

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... considers herself spiritual but often has a hard time believing things on ... tolerant, religion is more pure. Crazy. Looking at it from the reverse: part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . Time flies here like I'd never fathomed -- before you know it, the day ... the same time, my two-plus year absence from school had a profound ... , so I think it's just something that will go away with time. Folks, if

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005