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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  carry a lot of good memories with them, and that it might be nice to do ... something that I could actually do when I saw a post my boyfriend's sister had ... ...didn't really do much. We basically just grabbed a ton of swag, vaguely tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I tried setting up a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu but I messed it up and corrupted my Windows installation and left myself without a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  . Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it has differed from my experience doing math in high school. Basics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... processing power, limited running time, limited accuracy. As a simple example, which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  can’t seem to escape. The best we can do is take a moment, evaluate our ... , still a respectable amount of time by most peoples’ standards. Saturday ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  short answer is: we’ve been doing a lot! So we asked Claire, one of our ... place.But what exactly should you be doing at a college fair? Good ... “Now Claire, this all sounds great, but how do I know if I qualify as a rural or

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  before in my life, and immediately chose a cook-for-yourself dorm.  A few ... standards for "popular demand" are low), is a basic guide for those newbies ... -it-or-lose-it ; that means that if you skip breakfast (which you inevitably will do over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply ... spending quite a bit of time together assembling applications and preparing ... table with a hot cup of tea and opened my hometown newspaper ‘The Star

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  full time job offer nor a spot in the graduate program. I do something ... won't ever really know that for myself unless I do it myself. And on a ... . It's a funny story that honestly deserves its own blog post, but even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  you get to do as a shark become progressively more bizarre, the actions ... , and watch number grow up. These overlap a lot with idle games, though ... 't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  the hell a cross correlation was supposed to do. The whole thing was ... 't interest you and figure out a way to combine those things that do. You'll be ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... messed up when they do it at the airport. Let me put you on a flight to ... our customer," and MEAN it this time. I could tell you a story about a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in Johnson Athletic Center which marked the end of a very, very, very long ... finish off the year by giving you all a full run down of everything that

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  . Now that I knew what I had to do, the next step was finding a professor ... ? When people call themselves “grad students,” do you know what ... the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  of the commute, but I do recall one thing: we drove through a really ... do, but it gave us a roof over our head and a capstone to our biking ... someone walking and drinking a coffee in a rush, like we do in the states. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  from, say, letting a “Do Not Resuscitate” patient die by doing nothing ... to fail. I try to do this with a third attempt at a reasonable ... , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  album[/caption] Her music reminded me of what I’ve tried to do for a ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks ... group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  "it's been a year since I last saw that person." "it's been a year since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past few weeks, my friends and I have been talking about where we were a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time doing. I waited because I naively hoped that life would settle down into a ... bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017