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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  when it came to housing. I didn’t go to CPW, I didn’t look around at ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide ... back to those at a later time with more of an open mind. After delving

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  prediction when I got an email. I remember sitting at my desk in the Google ... research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1 ... . Journals (or at least this one) always want you to resubmit within four weeks

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  air; you are at least 90% sure that nothing would happen. A google ... delicate and costly red glass ball at the end, and send it slowly shooting ... sides. The three of you spend the next half hour chipping at the parts of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you ... through campus buildings at 3 a.m., passing through halls that are utterly devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... ; Suddenly, I started having headaches that wouldn't go away. At first I ... hand at legislative drafting. For example, *Carpenter v. U.S., U.S. v

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  a solar system, as an academic exercise. Meanwhile at home: Anyway. Being at MIT means quickly finding out that most people don't really know ... prepositions), and mixed with a few people that are really really good at doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful ... forms, a passport and a picture of my family that’s at least two years old ... genius afforded to Youtube’s most cringeworthy comments. At other times, we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of ... , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive ... . 10:04 AM: I am at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Amherst Alley

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  -year-old brother play the saxophone. On January 2nd, I was sitting at ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... tech was going to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if ... , it's just because they are releasing the decisions on 12/14 at 12:14pm ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a lot. Or like, at all. It makes me feel really guilty. I've probably ... website or anything. I am planning to learn Python in January so! Very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  decentralized. So, for example, if there was a professor at MIT from a particular ... ://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-spain/ (which just a few months ago was a much uglier website, nice job on the ... to meet with representatives from Telefonica at the European Career

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  interesting to look at. I tried to pick things that are all relatively short ... mathematicians often embrace ideas that at first glance (and later glances!) seem nonsensical, or the way mathematicians often hold obvious truths at arm’s length

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  Lima students, to a website that promotes local artisans and their ... be a tourist. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time. How I looked at it then was “A free trip to Russia? Heck, yeah. I can totally skip

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation ... there,” “why would you pick a class that you can essentially take at MIT ... iced coffee in one hand. Fun fact: Harvard classes start at 7 minutes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a ... touch with my EC and we agreed to meet at his office. He works out in one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  ! -Common Failures of Class Scheduling -Make a Website! -GIRs: How They Work -Student Government at MIT Serious Stuff with Silly Names -Serious Chemicals ... series of alarms, and a lot of sneezing. At some inhumane hour: my friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically ... cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... any data, but instead itself cites (at 84) “No Distinctions except Those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  be :) If you've checked out the CPW website, you will have noticed a ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in ... so t-shirts (though most of them were at least three sizes too big for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  away my website!) Here at MIT, the Infinite Corridor has been ringing ... remember hearing about Pass/No Record almost exactly one year ago at an MIT ... so, you only saw them at the state math competitions once or twice or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008