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• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... 've gone through the college application process, which meant shoring up all ... comparison, the internship application process demands less of you. Instead

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... been interrupted by the pandemic. However, despite this, now that it is ... extremely stir-crazy kids have learned to scale the fence between our yards so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H. ‘22, Emma L. ‘22, Faduma K. ‘22).  While our names only represent the first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful ... two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... side, that workload that was just the right pace? it's far ahead of you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... 'm respectfully crufting in the background. But every August - when I start hearing

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open ... people on the bed and one in my chair, when enter Brenda through the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies ... , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... that want other majors, but 2, 6, and 18 are the big three. This is how

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  feel this way. That was what the knocking was about.  I asked who it was, and the girl at my door told me that she did not feel right.  I opened the door and let her in.  She sat on my floor, and I sat with her.  She

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am a News Editor for our campus newspaper, The Tech. For me, that means one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the vast opportunities that it offers MIT students, then you're in the wrong ... ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation arising tomorrow. "Hi, it's nice to meet you - the gravitational force ... really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... 's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the ... using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its temporary effect on taste. The berry’s miraculin glycoprotein (3

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo ... . Aside from learning about mass spec and the excretory system and all that ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010