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• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... day meaning the first three days of web.lab, after which mit announces that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... late! Communication was bad on both ends; you’ll get it done. And the ... , so they know what they got. If we’re doing the work during the hours we

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  East Campus has a reputation. It's known as the mysterious and ... . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  . That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!) You ... as the Japanese toilet. From the bare minimum squat toilet in the ... unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  happened to you at what time, and then post the information? Not 'just ... , etc. There's a more detailed breakdown about the Class of 2005 here. As ... been reading the blogs (and they are wonderful,) but I am still in a

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and ... recently Go shopping. Adam and I went to the Cambridgeside Galleria on Friday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... 's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... plasmid formation to the accessory optic system to gender roles in the ... to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... will pile in the Family Vehicle and drive past several cow farms (but not over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... job??? The latter of which actively have a hard deadline??? But then ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  posted... yikes"]After **quite** the hiatus,[/annotation] it would probably ... keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to ... would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and ... ignored problems have piled up like the laundry that I keep washing but not folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  parents. They woke up immediately, trailing after me as I leaned over the ... me that the part he hated most about throwing up when he was little was the emptiness that he felt afterwards. How his stomach would go from

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  ) Easily-Googleable questions make me grumpy. Ex: "what is the application deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the ... go into the "respond later" or "respond much later" pile. 3) For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through ... o_o, but it was also cool looking back at that blog showing the ... including the summer and my life away from MIT. I almost gave up twice, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great ... felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  intended to write a week ago, between now and the party tonight! I don ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  counselors from top tier schools gave a panel discussion about the college admissions process, sandwiched between two 20 minute Q&A sessions. The ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018