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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half ... .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  tools you'll need for classes, but the hike in the snow can be a ... primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work which can be interpreted as both good and bad. The good: I was limited in

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... my LAST Orientation Activities Midway (I had manned the Model UN booth

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... was majoring in something, and I was like, "woah woah woah, don't you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our group also picked up whatever viral assemblage has been partying in my ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... Dabney House and doomscroll on LinkedIn while waiting for dinner to start ... bell. Announcements are made while we eat, and I think about my Google

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  In Matt's recent entry about the movie 21, he mentioned that he found ... forgo the opportunity to decorate their room - especially in dorms like ... on my floor, Burton 1, all decorated in such a way that creates a place

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  life. In other words, the more catered Chipotle, rush burgers, or local pizza consumed, the higher one’s overall satisfaction with life in general ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... when they are looking for some information or advice on transportation in Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  so far in 2009. Fact 2: in the four short semesters after enrolling at MIT, my frequent flier account has already broken six figures in terms of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  Back in November, after our adventure visiting every stop on the MBTA ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled Boston in Motion which included a large quantity of historical pictures

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  , pull out your device, and ask Google. We’re in a day and age where you ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... the grocery guide posted in May. This time, she writes about college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the ... 't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Yes, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Hunt was unforgettable, not least in the sense that my Google search ... Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... , granola bars and a box of organic alfalfa sprouts that appeared in no

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  from Google, AQR, and MDT in there too. And a bunch of other big name ... I know what you're thinking, "Whoa, two posts in two days? How can I ... , but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008