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• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  can't believe how assertive I was, how eager I was to experience new things that I'd charge into new situations blindly, how willing to meet new ... otherworldly...I can't imagine reading at this point in time; I managed to get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  If you're a regular on /r/technology, you might have seen Project ... about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of ... -of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  ’s how I got to know her!! Since the first time I talked to her, I have ... , munching on macarons. The following summer I obtained a PSC Fellowship to ... to see them going on to college and pursue that love. It's the MIT

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  favorite things to do. You get to put ingredients together...and then feed yourself...and feel satisfied that you're being #healthy and #adult-y. What ... potatoes were so simple to make and convinced me that roasted vegetables are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you're ... hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  agreed that the results depend heavily on how students define a “leadership ... War, according to his bio on the GEL website. Diane, who supervises ... that “GEL gives students opportunities to practice and reflect on their

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control ... before spring break. I'm super stressed. I don't know what is going on in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... variation on this method is to write all the chunks on notecards, shuffle them ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  *, I suggest hauling your personal belongings over to the South Station ... on the bus to Times Square. The eye-frazzling shock of Manhattan at ... crawled to die. Tackiness on an astronomical scale was all over the place

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  laughing about how much smarter you are than an MIT student while your ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to ... “playing exam” doubling as an opportunity for him to check on how we’re doing ... and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on ... the truth? I was up at 7 today to work on a prelab and then went to a 9

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... , and I would love to meet you, so please come visit while you’re here! I ... The Gray House, where MIT’s president lives. what other dorm gets to see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  eventually get better? Also yes. I learned how to time my throws more ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to ... looking forward to demonstrating to my coworkers exactly how terrible at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... yards. I'd applied to live on-campus knowing this—but deep down, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... campus everyday on each hour.  Quite a few MIT students go each year to ... /JPL sign, though. After visiting JPL, we hurried on our way to take a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  return from Italy, I'm on another plane, this one to San Francisco, where I ... -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... . However, when you work, you work from 9 to 5 (depending on where) and when ... with this summer, but I do feel like I am starting to get a better hold

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what ... , trying to focus less on growth and more on recovery until I'm better ... and coming to terms with the fact that some things are out of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... cinematography was so contentious, how Stanley Kubrick managed to make slow action feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018