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• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... having a chance to say goodbye, another person I would never again bump ... nearby. As "MIT's newest alumni" (a term I did not want to contemplate too

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  confused by the concept of a different kind of OS that they always stick to ... ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical ... be the poster child for "people who get headaches listening to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and ... : This video of Cho Gue-Sung getting a little [annotation note="Imagine me ... Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find ... ," which I think is a much better expression. Now I can just switch to ... need that exact word, you get your point across just fine by basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  st... First: thank you. It's been a real pleasure getting to know you ... , it's more than a job. It's hard not to get attached. This college process, is, of course, a two-way street. You get to choose where to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a ... only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  things instead, trying to make a portfolio that would get me into a concept ... Processing! Or Blender! Computer graphics is also a really good field to get ... bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  regenerating organisms with a certain gene turned off to see that they grew heads ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at ... six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the ... recognize them as the closing act). I never ceased to be amazed by these guys

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  point where a 2-foot-by-4-foot plastic bin at the sidelines of the arena started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an ... .022 test!” Not one to back down from a challenge, I enthusiastically insist

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... cartridges). MIT is the perfect place to start a puzzle, especially when there ... was able to write autobiographically in a completely different ways, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  Peer pressure gets a bad rap. Since elementary school you've been taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my ... to judge if you're convinced or not :P I will start by saying that I am ... access to a Costco: it's pretty far away, and although an MIT shuttle does

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a ... a message if you're going to be there!) to cheer on Team 97 ... goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly ... , but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the ... written, a lot of the quiz questions felt pointless because they asked us to ... and found out that Professor Sipser spends up to 15 hours preparing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to come up with a word to succinctly describe this aspect of my personality ... definition, in a constant state of flux, subtly altered by every new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009