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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of ... least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... , regardless of the platform, and they're thinking about the ways their attention

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  MIT. By the way, graduates of MIT's Architecture department designed ... the local area ECs and me. It was a good way for me to talk with our alumni, bringing them up to date on new things this year, and answering

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  ."]MIT[/annotation] work experience. There are a lot of blogs on UROPs already, so I won ... max of $2400 a semester (Fall/Spring) or $7680 for summer More info on ... students who call out on behalf of the school to speak with alumni about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to ... both of these :)) on something with real-world impact. As it turned out

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  pleasant way, to see a ton of familiar faces from New House at tEp. It ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those ... purple-leaved tree on our block of Commonwealth Avenue was located on the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... extracurriculars. On my way to the first one, I realized I just couldn't do it. I ... was collapse on my couch and burrow under two blankets. I had a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... "New Techs". A lot of these sentiments are reflected in the interns in ... In order to increase our chances of getting a good referral, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically ... .[/annotation] Then, you see the O on your transcript, thinking nothing of it, until you ... do when Life’s Coming At You FAST"]little bit of planning

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  procrastinating on picking classes for the semester, I went online, made a list of ... on Earth to provide very high-resolution data. It's the equivalent of ... said very simply that "there are a lot of ways to help people." He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  of in the same way we can do for poems and short stories. Hence the ... place, sharing thoughts and experiences on many of the topics I discuss ... recorded instance of "puzzle hunt". In those days the hunts started on Monday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new ... Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  ” applicant in any way, shape, or form. Sure, on paper my grades were good, and ... highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can ... chose all my schools (including MIT) on a whim. I picked a variety of in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  astronomy. Fast forward a few weeks, to the New House front desk, where I stood slack-jawed with my new book as it dawned on me where I had seen the ... name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... highly accurate caricature of itself Lulu on surviving MIT optimizing your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  ), Chicago (Swapna '05), New York (Laura '06), and of course, lots of people in ... friends and family, and it went way too fast. I hate being schmoopy above ... themselves in terms of her amazingness. A little on what we're doing now As I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  toilet on stage), the products don’t start out that way. The theme of ... actually good. But this process of structured ideation is incredibly ... focusing on building up an alpha prototype of one particular idea. Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  heading back to MIT (well, South Station in Boston) from my hometown of New ... dorms are all on the western half of campus. There are reasons for the ... there was plenty of space on what land they did own. When the decision was

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  shifts, and one day a jar of alfredo sauce cracked on the assembly line and ... trail on a mountain in Oregon. I miscalculated slightly how fast I could ... forgive me but the fantasy I started on was pseudo-European, full of castles

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  few A's. You're on top of the world! You've proven yourself worthy of ... on I think it's important to identify roughly two types of people here ... defeated in a lot of ways. My grades in a lot of classes weren't what I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  or get a flat, I can speed past all of them on my bike. Needless to ... than biking on the shoulder On the other hand, much of Vassar St (another ... Orleans, and elsewhere. If you're on the West Coast, you may have heard of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010