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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  something that was meant for all of you to read. I've been getting a lot of ... collaborate, work with others, and rely on your peers and classmates to succeed. It's a way to teach you that you aren't alone and that your weaknesses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You’re ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... facts, but you get the idea. I want to tell you about Paul, because Paul

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  frames or ⅔ seconds. Pretty confusing, but you’ll get used to it relatively ... sprocket holes. What a way to flex your technology! Some people prefer film ... could lead to the film getting jammed during projection. This would break

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost ... concepts that I've seen.  The idea of having the ability to scan your brain ... ability to go to a doctor and simply upload all of your vitals from the last

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

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  looking all over for you, kid!" booms Satan. "Let's get you back to hell ... uncertain coworker. By the time I grab my sandwich and get to the door, both ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... I wish I had time to do during the school year! (I'm getting much much ... , and I get to read all the books I've always heard good things about. Our

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  ! - Wenhao Sun As far as late Beethoven goes, I'd really like to get into him ... experience to say nothing else. Oh! I'm getting so excited about this concert ... quite nice when MIT rounds your GPA to one decimal place. In addition to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  food, I thought to myself, "Hey, the '10s are getting to campus just ... places to get food are." So here are five of my favorite everyday things to ... usually get a small soup or entree to go with my gargantuan plate of rice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... Tube! So if you're bored, and you want to screw around with something kinda ... evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  you have to tell your whole life story just to get any help from support ... recover your bandwidth because you’d have to take some of your bandwidth ... ."]S^3[/annotation] to get the support I really, desperately need right now

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ;congratulations on your debut!” There appears to be some sort of argument of ... to call the American Consulate in St. Petersburg to get connected to ... , lol. I was going to translate (as best I could) the article from the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not going to tell you how to spend your weekends, but do be sure to spend at ... ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... . So why should you spend $50,000 dollars/yr to come here?( Seriously

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  like salads as they hand out coupons to passersby. (If I ever get the ... I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think ... is "someone who just eats to not starve," and 10 is "Phantom Gourmet

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  cool experience. Free transportation: MIT students get free access to ... ’s even just nice to be able to get out of the MIT STEM bubble for a bit ... ’s also just nice to get thrown back into that freshman year excitement for

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  people ever refer to your dorm as home m: i personally do though some ... back from russia and since getting to college and meeting so many new ... explore too early to get stuck on smth m: logically yes i’m def feeling

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  try to add it to your bag, but with everything, in a short sighted way ... you for once go to sleep early enough to hear crowds chatting out your ... 'm getting a lot of exposure to the prof's intuitions, the psets haven't been

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  rainforest! Unfortunately, I also had to get there, and tickets to Brazil are ... , sometimes people will support you. I first tried to get funding through a ... vibrant with life. Even in the rainforest, of course, you don’t get to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014