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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  As a kid, I only moved [annotation note="twice if you count going ... a dry riverbed. The property shrank each year as the river bank eroded ... cross streets held a bank, a jail, and two corner stores. In the old house

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in ... . Iowa became a distant memory as I talked to my old friends less and less

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... wrote a really long post, which is now my longest post on the blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... email filters you make, somehow, emails will flood in like a tsunami. It

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... hear ([annotation note="unless someone directs a mighty Oye! toward you

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

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... philosophy is. At a high level, the strategy is the same we've had for at this point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  swept up into the chaos of starting the school year, which has been a ... . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This ... they felt. Next semester, when the freshman class switches over to A/B/C/No Record (or, for those people like me pursuing sophomore standing, a normal

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a ... going "take vitamins!" (Hi mom.) As a part of my healthy eating craze, I ... the vitamins, I am no longer lacking in Vitamin A, Calcium, or Iron!  It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... were usually left with a mixed bag of news (it turns out I am incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  8 Hypotheses, Mostly Non-Testable: 1. Today I accidentally punched a friend in the head while gesticulating the angle between a wall clock and ... entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  **I've been having computer issues for a few weeks, so this entry was written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on ... . I'm 18 years old (although, I subconsciously still think I'm 13), a Californian (Nor Cal REPRESENT!), 5'2", and a lover of all things food. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I ... first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  on this illusion that I am working towards a dual degree at MIT, doing ... is exactly what I'll have to do very soon. It'll be a huge comedown ... those of you who just skipped the beginnings of a rant above, here's a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly ... heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... . Sleeping overnight in the public areas of a House (e.g., lounges) is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... 's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition: Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005