Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... . As I understood when applying for housing, traditional is exactly what ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  Recently on @mitadmissions I asked what kind of blogs people wanted to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... little bit of high school, I was an avid YouTube and Twitch enthusiast. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  I apply it after a shower. I love the bittersweet mellowness of matcha ... curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  . Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive justifications. Let me tell you a story of two Bs. 8.02 8.02 was a second semester

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  of my last few months here can be spent walking down the halls where I ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness ... past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an email from BC Desk (that isn't this one) notifying you of a package

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  lot more time there, working, or not, and made a lot of fond memories ... reasons"]consonant,[/annotation] [annotation note="P and NP are classes of ... letters of the [annotation note="in case you are wondering, the best letter

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour ... -campus grocery store, it’s been fun to show off a little piece of what makes MIT so ... MIT has sports?? Of course, no tour is fun without some tour guides, so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  going to the end of this block." MAN: "It's actually free!" ME: "No ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  note="The spelling of this word is a complex thing. There's a chicken ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class ... to.  The Golden Age of Piracy was from 1650-1739, and the Chanties as

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot of cool MIT-related posts, like this one, or this one, or this one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... other thing.” Of course, this was not a real conversation with a person

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  transfer models apply the style of one image onto the content of another ... A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012