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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... takes a lot less AC to cool the servers, and the whole place becomes a lot ... ...connections. We also walked by this massive...thing: This is a giant box which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  -difficulty and age appropriate tasks to make the challenge a fun experience for ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  finally settling to a maybe-this-isn't-so-bad idea by the time you get to ... design*. Scoring a research position is by far one of the best ways to ... letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  Here is something that always makes me laugh: My sister (a Harvard ... to buy embarassingly large-sized teddy bears for your parents that make ... that I had to finish it. It's like when your mom calls you by your first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . :) --- Since coming to MIT, I've channeled my love of history by teaching a 6 ... too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced ... self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ways to feel lost:" I feel lost on a much deeper level than ever before ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... winter break and boiled down to a couple of basic, but essential, facts: 1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  lab by 9 AM -- I needed to run some gels and generally be a productive UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  excitement is. I realize a lot of college is about learning how not to make ... I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  tips are all things that I found to make a difference in my recruiting ... talk to them. Make a scouting video of things you are really good at ... The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  yourself as a writer. It makes it hard for you to write earnest posts like ... post is by necessity a work in progress, so I'll be adding to the list ... [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  , "According to Google dot com, he had many lovers." This makes me go ... doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a school profile?

  school doesn't have a profile already, please don't be concerned or make ... School Report and transcript. Most counselors also attach a letter of recommendation and a School Profile, describing your school's curriculum and
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  . Fortunately, however, snow with staying power chose a weekend to finally arrive ... ="106857" /]   Of course, I had to make an obligatory snow angel: [caption id ... : it was time to build a snowman. Now, as you probably noticed, there

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  Kidist and I went to a nearby CVS. We walked by a shelf that was supposed ... back to campus. It's a place which makes gelato but the "cherry on top ... crisis it is today. I want to preface this post by saying that it is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... at C++. I spend time tweaking the code to make the 3D display more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  --but I was a terrible debater. Not once did I ever make it to finals rounds ... whooped in rounds by some pretentious kid in a suit, I didn’t want to ever ... on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... procrastination. I take a moment to pull myself together before slipping into a ... ensemble) before running out the door to make it to my 9am final presentation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial middle child and by having red hair, so he compensates by acting out a little, not really in a dangerous way or anything, but just by being

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005