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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  . victor: hi there, can one really finsih, say, a course he takes,in a short ... . However, I feel like I've been so delinquent in responding to comments on ... all of your concerns about MIT and thus help me become a better blogger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... your other work. Mine was learning to longboard, a couple friends of mine

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... then she walked with me to 6-120, where a Physics class was in progress. I went in and pretended to be a student, which was easy given the 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  detail, until we get to dinner. In short, the event was the world premiere ... airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... , throwing out a yam, giving a spontaneous tour of Random hall to otherworldly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap ... not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  living in the library, seeing your AP US teacher in uncomfortably short ... deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... ’s a way to balance solving your 'little hunger' with leaving a door open ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle ... actually read back in middle school, and it motivated me to buy a collection

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore a little more - but in the mean time, just thought I’d share these ... ’ve corresponded back and forth with a number of the student leaders in these groups

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• 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…

  

  get a job in the NFL.' He's a computer programmer who's saying, 'I need to get a job at Google,' " Fitzgerald says. It's academic Located ... division in rushing. Actually, it's probably a surprise to many that MIT has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... semester, of how to start as a novice and build up your expertise in a given ... arrived to MIT, I thought I would pursue a double major in Course 6 and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to ... "), but once you listen to it, you're going to want a candy bar so bad that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  a little time in your discipline (either music, creative writing ... , the last three emotional people in a world of apathy, who decide to use ... filming in just one hour with no editing, but that's not to say it wasn't a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  20 hours a week. To be clear, letting your hardware decide whether to ... classes too. I want to learn as much as I can in as little a time frame as ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... watching your words form impersonally in front of you, in a pre-rendered font ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... fewer applicants this year - fully intending to use the waitlist in order to meet our target class size. With that figure in mind, I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  wore all the time in high school, and a dress with a cut similar to one I ... when it is in fact only mid-range cheap.  I get to my room. I’m allergic ... stop sneezing. I lived in a space I was allergic to once before, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... August, meaning that, in just two short weeks, I will be back to campus for ... , or sit in a park and read, looking up on occasion to observe the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022