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  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Friday when I was still in New Jersey. A couple of hours after that I got on a train to Boston, then took the subway. I got to campus around ... , so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox ... process, but more importantly, it’s taught me what it takes to work on a ... first be a good engineer. 2) Learn on the job Nobody tells you how to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  . If you do use your new teachers, I would give them a bit of time to get ... %, you got to wonder. Or, should we use a supplementary essay to explain ... ,' so is leaving that section blank going to harm us?" You hit the nail on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  : Relevant to what I want to learn. It's a new class which tends to be a lot ... relevant to any interest of mine. Also means I have to have a class on Friday ... gives me about 33 units to play with. I have a list of classes I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  talking to such a diverse group has helped me tremendously in learning about ... have been in Nepal since then. I am currently volunteering at a Buddhist ... /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  from September to May with a summer break, the Cambridge school year ... 'm thinking of starting a campaign to bring this to MIT, but I doubt it would ... often to formal dinners and other things. And a lot of the dining halls

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  lingering doubts about going to grad school dissipated. there was a moment ... uncertain while it’s happening, but then you figure out a new way of living ... look back on it and smile. for now and hopefully for a long time, for me

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  exactly made me think that? Was it actually a conclusion I came to on my own ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a ... had little to no interest in joining a frat here at MIT. It was a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  some independent video production on the side. Then I came “back home” to ... THE PAST 15 YEARS. Honestly, what is there to catch up on? The catching up is that I finally left MIT and started a new gig leading science

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon ... entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... uncharitable to myself, maybe I would say it was ego—contributing to such a high

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  thing that I got to go on a retreat to Kennebunk, Maine last weekend! And ... to do. please blog!!" e-mail from Chris. I even got a "just wondered ... world is a double-edged sword. You get to be around some of the most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... summaries, but I'll leave a link to an article about each piece. I'll also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  again. And if you just want to work on a UROP, like me, you can, without ... .” “IAP? I’ll take a design class and a PE class and work on my UROP. And I ... ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  roughly two months I had been living on campus, that I decided to go for a ... , my freshman year self still has a long way to go. ... On my freshman ... we did. We found the perfect people-watching tree to sit on and for a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... escorted the lovely and incomparable Mitra to a dinner for Tau Beta Pi, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a ... and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... ADHD. Need to do tests and scans and whatever and labs to move on with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022