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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption ... , looking at the other cruft blog posts[/caption] As one of the least crufty of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... of a ton of athletes.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “I have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... would typically just dub, ignore, let sink into the crumbling abyss of my ... -40 hours per week. But getting a glimpse of the 360 Photography Class on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE ... event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... school ran out of vouchers to take these exams so I never got certified but ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70, via Slice of MIT, reprinted with Prof. Winston ... Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of ... were the last solar eclipse of the century. Now priorities are such that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  caught on fire and flipped over a couple of times but we didn't have any ... that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the planet or that we were in New York City ready for a day of awesome. We

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... a couple days ago -- an official sign of winter's approach. i arrive

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to ... high school is considered US based. We don't have AP classes or many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive: ten, twenty feet of towering spiny cactus. They dot the desert ... here: the gila monster, its mottled orange and black skin warning of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... algorithm, which is a cool way of doing parameter estimation for complicated

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... of fun! We talk about things like what separates [annotation note="it's like the difference between just living in a town, and being a citizen of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... -out but it is true okay']answer:[/annotation] people, lots of them. I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... accident. cronos learns one of his sons will overthrow him, so he eats his ... they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... periods of high anxiety, i could feel my heart occasionally flutter ... severe than they used to be. for instance, as a result of running

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... before the school year starts, they publish a whole long list of advising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016