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• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground ... . I just don't get it. Anyway, I thought I'd wrote a quick little entry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Happy Cooking! ----------------- Greetings, Burton-Conner, Just a ... overall jack-o-lantern? Stop by for a break and great stress relief ... Burton-Connor? Come represent your floor in a fast-paced game of "Sex

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  the hologram, artificial intelligence, "pharmacy on a chip," stop ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... classmates a unique chance to gain valuable research experience and insight

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker resident, Charles Bruno '74 ... him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno.'" Now the Bruno, like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  Today was my first full day back on campus! This summer was a ... room. We had a fire alarm go off in[annotation note ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  This is a guest post by Sara M. '24, our lovely dorm VP, who did a better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk-enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a ... shared a name with my brother (this scenario hasn't happened yet; like me

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... give a tour of Next House. I organized the [annotation note='during which we put together a custom 2000-piece puzzle and watched Mamma Mia! with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything ... actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three ... heel of my foot started hurting, like there was a small lump in my heel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  , especially if they're someone you haven't seen for a while. Tumaba ka ata ... taken as a comment made in bad faith, especially among older Filipinos. An honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  Like most bloggers, as a starry-eyed freshman, I wrote a bio that has not stood up terribly well against the test of time. This isn't a ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would ... grades are recorded as a pass (meaning A, B, or C) or not recorded at all (if you got a D or F)."]P/NR.[/annotation] For some, it comes second

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... position the Institute for decades to come as a world hub of education

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... question is here! Q: What do I do next? A: First, you should create a My

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  GPA while also not being very useful while also causing a lot of stress ... graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic performance and probably also *cough* a better quality of life...who knows

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... expected them to. Have a few anecdotes!! Expectation: I start using my dorm

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before ... family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis ... to be a professional clown? Absolutely not. But now you can say that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014