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• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  I would be the "distraction" and get Ben to leave 3-107, while Caroline and Tina snuck in and decorated. Basically, I knocked on the door ... cooler than he could ever be. Aw.) Ben spies on us through the window

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  applicants and Regular Action applicants. The Midyear Report will be available on your MyMIT account in January and should be completed as soon as ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  on C3 (marked as x) and we want to know where it can go, given the ... boards. Play on it here. You can play against the chess engine I wrote as ... just happens to be the number of squares on a standard chess board! Funny

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  -minute walk from Random—and catch the sunrise. Plus apparently there would be so ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of ... protective behind us. Then Kevin collapsed on the snowy ground and began

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  conscientously. Even a pset can be beautiful. Maybe not as beautiful as the ... . Everybody has different levels of talent. Later on, though, the only thing ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... after they get tenure (which means they can't be fired and therefore may ... Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or willing ... -off for the summer months. I just got back from Alaska. More on that (with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , I can say ‘nigga’ because I have black friends on the football team ... --yes, bigots. I have written many posts on the many amazing people at MIT, and I ... could see no benefit in being the color of your skin and everything it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  quick and dirty introduction to the fundamentals of circuit building and ... able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials ... learned on Java. (for all you coders out there, let me go ahead and say

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  the semester, I had spent a lot of time and energy on making sure the ... couldn't save the world, even if you tried. You can't be the sink node for ... get out of my classes immensely, on both the technical and artistic

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of ... photo printed on it, and be told by very nice people that it also serves ... 'll be picked up, you watch a motorcyclist slide and crash into the curb at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  . You're going to be the one who has to take charge of that. And there will, probably, be a few times you have too much going on and forget that ... all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  idea that the path I was on (and excited about!) could be fraught with so ... tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... , very strange year at Uber” on her personal blog. The post quickly went

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  trips taken on my own, solo-travel Managed all the paperwork and ... -eye trips for on-site interviews. Finally got to go to the beach and visit ... shape. I skate in the morning, 2-3 hours on the ice, and then some smaller

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  about how happy my former english teacher would be! And how fortunate, because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma ... the rest of your life collapses in on you and you find yourself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  somehow I ended up on the Wikipedia page for puzzlehunts, and then I ended up on the Wikipedia page for the MIT Mystery Hunt. And I remember being ... afternoons. Then the next two weeks will be for us to work on our website, with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  anymore. And so you do the two things you can do: listen to the playlist on ... can't be planned. Because spontaneity is good. And stepping away from ... dooring in the cold is an experience that can't be written down. It required

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  lolllll…. The best and only way I can describe Burt Conner is that it is the ... episode). It seems very nice being on west campus snugly between Baker and ... you can just be comfortable around because you have been so close for so

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015