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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... thought were especially comforting, and might quilt together into a nice, cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog a week as i'm currently working on a semester recap video blogpost ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... ' heads. That girl over on the right had a hovering 1200. And the kid in the back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a total of 22 times, alongside my teammates Daniel A. '21 and Antonio B. '22

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  code a lab called Autocomplete. It was about implementing a data structure called a Trie (pronounced either “try” or “tree” depending on who you ask), which is “a type of search tree that stores an associative

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... implemented turned any photo into a brush-stroke painting depending on what type ... the labs in 6.034 Artificial Intelligence   A Non

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a ... what else has changed. D E S K  S P A C E As a student, I spend an

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a ... know what i'm doing with myself, and it's a really good feeling) and am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  , is Beantown Taqueria, a cozy Mexican Restaurant with delightfully spicy tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... student has been on a steady diet of chicken breast, ramen, and whatever

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Convention Center, the BIABF was a bit like the MIT Career Fair but with coat check, classy security, and fancy wine. Plus a much older and wealthier population. Really, a whole new world.    If you're wondering what an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... , which throughout my (privileged) childhood had seemed like a stable and ... only television show for which I consistently made the time. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  Finals ended over a month ago, so quite frankly, I have no excuse for my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a ... a little anemic right now (maybe it’s heat exhaustion. Or maybe it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about ... up to:   (1) 2.670 (Mechanical Engineering Tools) A class!  But

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... UROPs/internships have finished, so why not go and learn a thing or two

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... : everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013