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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  me $100 on top of my store credit. I've gotten a lot of questions from ... Intel Core M in some of the new surface pro tablets. This is a less ... to many of the projector screens or external monitors on campus. You

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and when he ... –summiting the highest peak on each of the seven continents. From my years in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... example, on the number of people who major in EECS at MIT. Once you're in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... of other MIT people) increasingly live on different ends of the Boston ... typically visit the big Faires in Bay Area and New York to give versions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  different communities. To me, being on RingComm really helps fulfill both of those desires in a new way. I can confidently say it's one of the most ... "]first-year-posting jitters[/annotation] and the fear of being perceived; I'm hoping to be on my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  screwing up on the air. So when the final blackout on the final night of the musical occurs, when you're walking out of Trident on Newbury Street after ... First of all, I give you an excerpt from my personal blog, written

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  -related justifications: the first, a class on the fundamentals of computer security, was ... ; and the second, a class on musicals, did not have a quality of ... were weeks where I was working twenty hours on top of classes and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... MIT people live in New York and there's always something going on! This ... to be starring in a Picture of Dorian Gray play here on Broadway. I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  very fun. We saw lots of building and paint on walls that was very "wow ... Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from prospective applicants about what essay questions will be on our application ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  Link on the top to get more of an idea of the classes I'm taking. The links ... My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... "thing" will be 1.00, every day of this semester. But I promised myself I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  "most read" on the side for a quick idea of what it's about). Then there ... MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  the 30-minute read, except for the new guy (that's me). My average is ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  Hi!! First of all, I'M SO EXCITED TO BE AN MIT BLOGGER!! When I got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  ritual to prepare for the start of each new semester. I think some bullet ... In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... digital calendar simply wasn't going to cut it. Instead, I took advantage of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... his freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and ... the seven summits challenge–summiting the highest peak on each of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I ... decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan ... showed a whole new space, the valley and the climbing mountain on the other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  graduates. I turn that question back on them and explain that regardless of ... As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015