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• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... is in Atlanta, Georgia? Hey, if you came here from Google looking for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  freshman student, I decided to jump in and get started on problem 4, just to ... thought. "Maybe that's just a curveball, just a tough one to get you ... . Were. Hard. Resigned that I was going to be here a while, I settled in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  route to transferring to MIT in September 2024, I attended a small liberal ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... they get to your folder as soon as possible. Jiggity asked about the ... still have to take on a future date. We will have the official data in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  is not a guide to optimizing your CPW experience... here are a few ... best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... .mit.edu for a simple Google Maps version of campus. Don't be afraid to explore

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  silicon slides in a round-bottom flask. If we just let them sink to the ... Eppendorf tube as a flotation device, we tried to use wire to hold it in place ... to fly. I'll admit, I googled "get cape wear cap fly" to find this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  a meal. I try to sneak in a quick YouTube video, or progress past an ... ' meeting, in which we open up a Google Doc and talk about all the things that ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story ... time, which she addresses in a personal statement. We know you're going ... the coming days. In the meantime, there are a few things we wanted to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially ... here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to ... 've finally succeeded in hacking my own account, which presents a strange

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  This was a fantastic session, short enough to appeal to beginners, but long enough to achieve a little harmony and inner peace. If you're on ... Meditation Monday: Tonight, 10/16 @5:30 pm in 50-005 Meditation

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this ... . First, we had a pun in our title. (Also, note the colon. Do we get +20 for ... ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... about funny dialogue in teen dramas Cami: A link to a crossword puzzle ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  :00pm EDT, in order to accommodate both coasts (and all the lovely time zones in-between). The page will go live ~30 minutes prior to each webcast ... (and all-around great guy) Paul ’12 to answer your questions. We’ll be

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  someone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to :( Oftentimes, there is a ... do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to ... . The people in your life should make your world bigger, not smaller

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  visit. How has your MIT education influenced/helped you in regard to ... hacks?) What is your preferred way to the get the tour: on your smartphone ... I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  factors, but most importantly, don't let yourself get in the way of your own ... participant at a hospital, which, to make a long story short, was like being on ... interpret the world and utilize as a tool (you’re all probably starting to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016