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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  an embodiment of modern consumerism and globalism. Here, you can go on ... the music from speakers on the other side of the river. The River ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  've been watching a lot of Phil's new videos, but what I've really been ... check YouTube for a new Dan and Phil video. I really also enjoy a lot of ... streams, and so on so forth. I also watched a lot of CSGO highlight reels

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends ... minor purchases. Don’t drag a mound of erasers and rulers on a plane, but ... pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  unreasonable amounts of time on something is a classic IAP move. In IAP mindset ... from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  docks and benches to chill on, but if you're more of an active person, the ... A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo ... on this blog! Coming from Colorado, the weather itself actually wasn ... call it (my super Asian mother has always placed a high value on both qi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  go on your transcript or not. My point is, you meet a lot of cool new ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... numerals -- On some forms and posters, people refer to their course (major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . With the poor animals on the brink of death, present day me doesn’t find ... wandered off into the wilderness of the supermarket, intent on seeing the ... moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  hearty replacements. feast your eyes on this $7 bowl of Yamo House ... of rowing, focused on conquering will rather than body control. It ... driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight ... ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... new vigor and confidence in learning actual CS things. I'm really proud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all ... lunch by yourself on top of the school bleachers and wonder about life ... people on the “fringes” of your friend group. Plan an extravagant senior

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  entirely out of the desire to hardcore om nom nom on these suckers to prove ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  on MITConfessions. 9.35 - 9.45 am: i reluctantly get out of bed ... few good study spaces on this side of campus, so it's always well ... pretty red and look soft! i am now the new owner of: Location: East

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of ... , three months away from blogging, two month of catching up on classes after ... could do all of my hobbies on the side, but you can’t do that here. Or at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... -related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006