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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  long time. At least, that's how it was for me in the act of running. Once ... Skype chats and Google hangouts for more flexible office hours. That level

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there ... Science), at its heart, is broken down into three separate portions of a ... can be combined to make basic logic gates like ANDs, ORs, XORs, et

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  weekend at the WildFire Flow Arts Retreat and learned how to [annotation ... "]flesh,[/annotation] [annotation note="essentially spitting lamp oil at a torch ... seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  repair shops and found one that did have a 3a screen. I glanced at the ... time I dropped it at a bus stop in the middle of northern Italy one night ... Mexican goods. At this point I wasn’t sure if it was worth the price

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... Google Calendar like a stamp collector would fill their collection. Every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  get work experience, AND you get to travel at the same time. If you ever ... abroad for high school and university students. What’s cool: 6 weeks at a ... version of the Google Translate app, and you’re good to go. Of course

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... hope to do with my life i realized at some point during the semester ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token-woman-who-is-good-at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  gear. If you truly have no idea what I mean, we here at the ONLY ... all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of ... cooked ribs and baked beans and coleslaw as a birthday dinner! At first I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  obligation to leave my dorm. But when my friends started looking at houses and ... , so their residents get the feeling of being away from school at night ... my age. I wanted a little bit less energy at night, a place where I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  together, and go out to eat together at least once. - There's the activities ... science majors to left-handed people. Try Googling for "scholarships", and ... in the sciences at the same rate as the boys? Have to ask. While I can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  -end lab to one that we had at the beginning of the year and it more directly ... heavily on some pdfs and images that we found when we Googled “bottle rocket ... had my very first go at a New York Times crossword puzzle in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  heard into Google Translate, looping the audio at 0.75x speed and trying ... over the world. It starts Friday at noon, and then we puzzle ... have taught me how to puzzle, laughed hysterically with me at 3am, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  . On a more personal note, it definitely wasn’t my best year, but here at its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... space and time and see the forthcoming events from the year, in at least

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  changing right before my eyes and there was nothing I could do about it. At ... more rarely, perhaps we would take a longer look at them. Scarcity breeds ... , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  with: "I will never stop being amazed at how lucky i am with flights ... plane So i might lose that luggage I look at her, tears in my eyes, and ... change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT ... : because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... over the last twenty years, using Google Maps to see how far away common

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  normal to us now like motion graphics were completely new and magical at ... delivered on that front. I’ve never stared at VSCode so much in my life. 6 ... goal. For example, the Google search engine uses distributed technologies

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... are being noticed more than they really are']people don't look at you as

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : aka Course 9, my new minor, because everyone should take at least one class ... : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... Sheraton Hotel in Times Square and fed us at a $$$$ circus-themed French

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  's good at Google-fu, and you found something else you want to learn about ... can get, the MIT office I worked at this summer gave out things like a ... first blogged about this back in my first year at MIT, so this is a perk

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012