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• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... good at not succumbing to temptation. Did I tell you about the time I was ... that I uploaded to my webspace a couple days ago, and therefore must be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  forces you to build for a real customer; when you have deadlines every few ... .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... on campus, with almost four hundred easy-going people who like to hang ... , solar rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a bright dining hall, and a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... <3'] is Semantle.[/annotation] I was introduced to it by Jenny W. (G

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to fire in response to external stimuli as well as to each other, there ... in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  google maps, we decided on a trip out to Sandwich, MA for our mini ... 't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should be used to, and things hit you one after another. Last week, I had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  looking for a temp to run their social media, website content, and email ... I felt the sudden urge to write something tonight. I wasn’t sure what it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  experienced. I was forced to take a good hard look at everything I was and try ... really to speak. They could feel the sheer nervousness just radiating off ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  force a particular card to stick in our minds while rifling through a ... They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  website for WILG, and it occurred to me that this almost certainly wouldn ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it wasn't worth my time to apply to this university, but rather to emphasize

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  . Before I came to Boston, I dedicated quite some time to ironing out the ... 's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since ... blogging was not always this fancy -- I put my Course 14 skills to good use ... and sent them to Matt McGann. You know, the usual: a cappella concerts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  first semester senior who just decided to change her major around, this ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... yoga/stretching type exercise to get us loosened up physically, and maybe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston. "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out, Kim happens to be a celebrity because she was a cast member on Season 1

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Choice of Major website. Sara wrote, "For the next Omnibus: - Is it ok to ... takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021