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• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  for the first time and overwhelmed by the feeling of having an entire ... carries this fear out of me for the first time. “Maybe it’s immature, but ... : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the ... , because, well, there's a lot of it. Or, the electronic bits storing your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third ... help keep the culture going. normally, the 50-some members of my living ... from all over the dorm. this year, however, the members of the floor are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  the Deal of the Week so my face was on the front page of Publishers ... first round of revisions and sent it back to Penny. When she replied with ... outside of school on the manuscript. My mind wandered in class—I was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  [/caption] Anyway, back to 6.2050 The first seven weeks of the class consisted of ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... rooted in physics, the whole process is slower overall. But because of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... labs benefit from the (effectively free) labour of highly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  finishing the last of four exams on Monday, I had a pleasant four-hour lapse into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... that you have failed a test is the equivalent of eating a burrito

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  to any member of the MIT community via a Web page) reveals that this ... through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of ... random laboratory with the unfortunate designation of a hard intro calc

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  doesn't necessarily mean the viewers did. First of all, she killed Shannon ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train tracks behind Simmons down Massachusetts Avenue, straight in front of MIT, then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... ?” My friends were right about the first two things, but I assured them I ... I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... first urop the summer before sophomore year, like you did, be too late? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  reading and this first quarter they are reading Dune in preparation of the ... of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... first time I referred to MIT as “home” freshman spring. At the time, it had felt too soon, almost as if I were betraying the sanctity of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended ... : Rush out of the ridiculously muggy apartment. For reasons unknown to me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... Cruise Check out the New England Aquarium Visit the top of the Prudential Center See a show at the Museum of Science Ice skate on Frog Pond Go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of the MIT community. No really, why? Because of the free stuff, obviously

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first ... the whole essence, [1] because I need to be a senior, because ... the FPOPs started, an FPOP being a first-year pre

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022