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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop. I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  around the office hoping to waste as much time as possible. I count making ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  single vid of my first time snowboarding". Turns out, by the time we got to ... to get a new video before we absolutely had to make the last bus. (We actually also missed the second bus and had to get driven by one of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  time to make orders and then end up messing them up. This is fair because ... way to make conversation and are just generally nice ... that overlook the river, making it by far the most comfortable dining

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Keep your eyes to the skies this Pi Day 2019s are happening

  

  username and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you

  • by Decision Drone
  • March 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  , “Welcome to MITES!” The next six weeks flew by. And I don’t know exactly ... lobby hugging, laughing, and making last-minute promises to visit. But ... quickly, or who would make saying goodbye feel so impossible. But MITES gave

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  make informed decisions as often as possible, I decided to attend an ... him and Ted Kennedy speak to make up for it or something - Caroline ... ourselves, so JudComm is there to make impartial decisions. I think a cat got

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  , one of the country’s larger news websites. Then it was refusal to renew ... farce. It basically allows a government-appointed council to detain a “suspected terrorist” for up to 14 days without warrant. And the bill is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha ... must work effectively to realize this task, so students also learn about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... some my sadness quickly washed away as I stepped outside to find butter ... carving blocks and faces and buildings out of butter. I tried to make a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... , enough to make this class bearable to take. 6.820: Foundations of Program ... lot i don't really have anything to complain about right now, because i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  sleep. I decide to pass the time by taking a quiz on Buzzfeed. This quiz ... ’s as good a weekend as any to visit. I stop by Random Hall, where Kevin ... those pom-poms). It makes for great hair. I decide I want to keep this

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... volunteer judges to review student projects. All students in grades 9-12 during the 2016-2017 school year are eligible to win up to $100,000 in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  . So yeah, makes sense."]VHS[/annotation]. I had to look up how to make ... games of all time has to be Zork, a text based adventure game made by MIT ... [annotation note="Ok, it's like 3 now, but i'm not going to change

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  crushingly sad but also inspiring; I resolved to make the most of my remaining ... . We crowded by the elevators to hug him, and when he left, someone said ... feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  example. I'm glad that I didn't pick a living group by trying to find the ... infinite every now and then. I regret not making a point to exercise ... navigating the waters of decision-making and consulting and knowing when to ask

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  at least I thought I wasn't. Constructors didn't make sense to me ... by simply saying that the response to "What's the bridge like?" is not ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  close to MIT right now, which might make that last comment less random. I ... to be one of the most recognizable) by asking each of its riders to ... , considering they have pages of student suggestions to use. But really, ask

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some ... emotional health improved by leaps and bounds. After coming to MIT, though, I ... I think that if I do pick up fencing again, I'll be able to make

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021