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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek ... what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you know? I hated going to the doctor to get vaccines. I know they’re good for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  ="capture-the-flag, a term of art for 'cybersecurity competitions where you try to get ... 's probably fine. I've got to get to my next class soon, but I stick around for ... such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... some fast, diverse recipes to get you through the semester. 42

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  -- you can do so by going to these links, in this order: http ... solutions out there. You can get instructions on how to set one up at http ... this via SFTP to ftp.dialup.mit.edu, or for the less technically inclined

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this ... mashed together by some very human developers. I’d prefer to keep thinking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost ... philanthropic efforts to do just this. From the One Laptop Per Child to this new

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  ; President Reif even stopped by to give his support and encouragement for the ... for OLED screens to new cancer therapies. 3. There are resources; use ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  normal to us now like motion graphics were completely new and magical at the time. I got to try out new frameworks like p5.js and paper.js and ... goal. For example, the Google search engine uses distributed technologies

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and ... admit, I wanted to be an engineering major for at least an hour after the ... 'm very excited. Spoiler 2: I might get to speak to a fighter pilot and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  . Spite can be an amazing motivator for getting essays done. I had to ... got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... draft done for [annotation note="Intro to Media Studies"]CMS.100

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  started labeled #fundraising with a request for people to help in: Making a google form for orders and determining styles Making a drive ... google sites website to house the forms Figuring out payment information

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... finished off the trip by walking through the lovely city of pasadena to get ... ="attachment_45131" align="aligncenter" width="750"] my daily route to work as shown by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... attract plenty of people out for a stroll, but they tend to be dominated by ... 're starting to get busier… you get used to big things fast in China, and you get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... products ranging from Google beanies to Google Homes (the device not an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... president; and those most impressed by his summer job -- as an intern for the ... resident who attends Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He won't really get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  of mit through mystery hunt, getting to participate in it for the first ... celeste for a few minutes before getting bored. last fall, we cooked finals ... in baker. i take the elevator down to the dining hall to get meals, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  to get there Okay well i googled and like Is it gonna be a run instead ... , and typing at his computer for about five minutes, he managed to get ... new year (she/her):flag-mx: 1 month ago Got to the airport way too late

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  military, but there are opportunities for international students to get ... this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007