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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I ... research purposes. And maybe, by that time in my life, I'll be older and know

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  cla— Stop. Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the ... stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman ... of my time[2], so it felt like I was well above my usual course load

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  time, I flirted with the idea of majoring in History at some really ... " humanities programs than MIT does), when decision time came. Many people have ... and other events. For example, one of the best parts so far was meeting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  time or face expulsion from The Midnight Society or whatever. So, with ... "Friday the 13th Part 9: Jason Goes to Hell" and "Drainiac" for about 5 ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and...viscerally uncomfortable. Is time real?? I've already lived at my current house for longer than both the places I stayed at this summer, even though those times

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  farther European cities. Laura's job was to help design two pedestrian ... at MIT but is expected to be learned on the job. She loved her ... . These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... ’t just add another leg at the droopy part because that was supposed to be ... part, we still didn't trust the frame to hold up all the concrete blocks

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Slam, a week-long, no-holds-barred celebration of poetry that's part competition, part exhibition, and 100% inspirational. This time around, both ... 's only a handful of rules behind it - things like scoring rules, time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  together a hybrid with the most important parts of each. By the time I was ... , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not ... incident. But by the time we were done, it was past 1 AM, so we had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  things don’t always go as planned. I spent a bit of time editing the part ... [annotation note="*Checks watch* wow I was a sophomore last time I ... bit of time gesturing around MIT. Though ideally, I would eat 3

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  ?" or "can I part with this for an indeterminate amount of time?" boxes ... -19 policy briefs as part of a class assignment"]political science class ... our brief discussion, we didn't take the time to imagine the confusion

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  😂) Associate advisor meetings: A big part of my job as an AA is to ... dead week are Secret Santa/gift exchange time all around campus. My floor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  vision, and in that context...I had a hard time being picked up [by facial ... job done ... So I started exploring that a little bit. Why was this ... been a part of the Center for Civic Media...just having the freedom to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... beyond   While in Almaty I also made some time to visit the local ... they have there. One of the best things about my job is I get to travel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  As the NY Times article states, this whole blogging thing "began with ... gotten my friends Bryan and Sam jobs. (No kickbacks, though.) WHAT AM I ... best part of graduating and moving to California has been connecting with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in ... dreams because all I wanted is to have any job, and not live in the ... long lines and waits are good! The hardest part is waking up before 5

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  canonical part of the prefrosh experience. Finally, Sam wraps up with a timely shot of chair racers in MIT's extensive underground tunnel system, a ... try it. Once again, here's an honest, grateful, thank-you-for-doing-my-job

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  huge waste of time! As of yet, this has not occurred (as far as I can ... . I had been at my other two jobs for about a week when one of the sound ... amazing to see all my friends from high school again. The best parts were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  third grade and took away my job as the only freshman admissions blogger ... want to be a part of Residence Based Advising, at which point you must ... a lot of time to decide what dorm will be a good match for you as well

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  admits that his path has been partly determined by a series of coincidences ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web ... and has been published seven times in the prestigious journal, Nature

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006