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• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  --like being a Computer Science student at MIT--you should give yourself the ... specs can be exorbitant. And there does not seem to be common wisdom as to ... advice would be to defer judgment, if possible. If you have a serviceable

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  ’s environment be conducive to people with non-young adult problems? According to ... ’s also the wealth gap. The BSU/VA mentorship program could easily be ... the Bubble” should be an MIT requirement, or at least a mandatory

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  would depend on being able to directly compare 2 numbers and say things ... more involved problems, could be figured out with a bit of thought and ... group result will be “yes” if a majority of the 3 (so 2 or more) says “yes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  ’s being involved in the systems analysis of 6.033 (Computer Systems ... designs ourselves—the only constraint is that we can’t be part of the users ... “interviews and observations” needed to be done by tomorrow’s presentation. The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  lowest officer rank, instead of enlisting--in other words, you would be in ... military. Officers could be involved in all sorts of things, including positions that could be in your major at MIT or elsewhere--the military has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... college, I didn’t think that I was cut out to be a research scientist. The ... program. I became a scientist because of this program, and I would be very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  . First: I remember being a speck among many one afternoon, staring across a ... ...” And just because of that, we all knew we would be fine. Second: a ... to Alpha Delta Phi. What happened? Well, it should be straightforward

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  undoubtedly filled with subterranean aliens would be enough to enforce ... might have underestimated the extent to which I would be challenged by my ... experience, one I’m more clearly aware of, one that encourages me to be focused

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "problem? there's a problem? WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?" mode. My neurons fired ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... be happy to meet with me. Absolutely mortified at the idea that they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... my pizza horizons - I used to be a strictly mozzarella, or mozzarella ... be shy about raising their hands and asking questions - and, in return

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  it goes so fast, how could it be over? Then you think about specific ... certainly countered by a lot of negativity, to be sure. One tends to start ... semesters, the "work my butt off" semester and the "be as lazy as possible

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  history, I will deliver. As one might be able to deduce from my previous ... , to be honest, I'm a big fan of chaos. Week Two Departing Bangalore, I ... visitors as the real Agra, it seemed everyone wanted to talk with me and be

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , but we couldn't see exactly how. I was skeptical that it would be that ... only be settled experimentally. Conclusion: it was not comfortable. I ... once, but only once... Of course, no trip to San Francisco would be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome ... friends have taught me may not exactly be appropriate for posting here ... talking to is me"). I might be turning into a linguistics nut, but I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  an entirely different story- I have this suspicion I'll be taking 18 ... design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... ...what's the word? Oh yeah, fun. To tell the truth, it can be a really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  thought I'd like to be. I am half Macedonian, half Italian; my parents met ... hated every second of it, all of it. I was being steered here and there ... cared to be lauded for a job well done in an endeavor that wasn't really

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  started and meditating on how and why would be unproductive. The truth is ... reason I was drawn to food, but the thrumming instinct to be involved with ... -graduation. Instead, he will be moving to Kansas City one week after graduation with a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  come to this forum where we met. We thought it would be fun, so we went ... post from being unbearably long, we will summarize. We lived in Brooklyn ... like to think we do it effortlessly (or as effortless as it can be for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  narrative. So it'll be much messier, but hopefully provide some insight as to ... asking about why the MIT colors are the way they are. And of course, being ... Pepsi, then yes, 2003 would be really recent for a logo update. [caption

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021