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• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  * This is where, as much as I hate to admit it, Uber delivery came to save ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  how much of this I actually get to touch on/experience in the next four ... weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking ... -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one ... This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years ... that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  much already, but I’m thankful to have met and been friends with someone ... remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to ... , confusing everyone, making weird sounds, and refusing to be consoled until it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  last entry pretty much sums up what I want to tell you about that class ... .org/topics/life/student_life_culture/valentines_day_special_1.shtml) and continued to run into her with increasing frequency until ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... Mystery Hunt that I think all I'll be able to manage is an entertaining

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  and another school. The funny thing is I can’t seem to recall much from ... parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never ... I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I've made my triumphant - but temporary - return to the blogs because 1

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  year, Chris Peterson summoned me back from my alumna grave to apply my treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... 're talking about when they have to discuss the monoclonal antibody against

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post-It stuck to my computer screen: Deep breaths. (Items #1-5 are probably less

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was a fresh experience that I really needed. I remember seeing the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  observes that the proof contains all the key facts needed to actually prove ... my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you know? I hated going to the doctor to get vaccines. I know they’re good for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015