Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  opposite our hostels and classes for prayer. And each Sunday, the Christian ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  can read more about that here if you want!)   For context, Muti ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  plans for a STEM profession reality TV show, come up with ideas of my own ... . More about that experience here. After I left, my team stepped up their ... can have a regional competition here in the UK for the first time. In

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a ... . II. For some reason, people HATE admitting that they are premed at MIT ... growing up, he consistently told me that "if you don't enjoy medicine, it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  life. Saturday. I'm helping Mikey prepare for the closing show. We ... line for the ribs. Where, like a beacon in the darkness, stands Snively ... with deliciousness. I asked Snively for the recipe; instead, his friend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , Dugan and I got to sign up for a new Barefoot Contessa mailing list, from ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry, which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  've essentially followed the "path of most math" for most of my life up to this ... and CS, and I watch anime and [annotation note="know an xkcd for every ... competition to be the best, I might as well give up now, because I have no hope

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  for housing. I ended up sharing a two-bedroom apartment with three other ... in with tech talks and lotteries for electronic swag, which we could ... appointments for resume reviews, interview tips, offer negotiation tactics, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  CUP (Committee for Undergraduate Performance). CUP was set up when I was ... . How did you become interested in Course 14? Do you have any words for ... as in economics classes. Or you could go work for a government agency

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  signing up for 6.100A, but quickly realized I would be better suited for 6.100L. I signed up for [annotation note="ALL TECHNICAL WHY DID I DO THIS ... recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  CodingBat and also looking up basic Python projects for beginners. I ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... also up there in my interests but I didn't want to work with organic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... asexual people describe. For example, not really wanting to have sex, aside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  twists, hold it up with bobby pins and hope for the best. I have been known ... For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair ... school boys on campus for a UROV competition in June of 2010. At this time

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  his family had set up for us on their lawn. After an afternoon with ... in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... 't know the city, so we looked for the Space Needle in the horizon and just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... were up to, strike up conversations. The first few times were admittedly ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... ’t F*** This Up”). New planner! Because I’m all grown up and in college

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  Hall residents. I did have a simple Yamaha piano growing up, but then ... games my siblings and I had come up with, heck even napping. But the ... end of the week, and I can tell you everything I was up to these last

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  sure it's up to scratch. I was invited to attend a meeting for the ABET ... coming up in future semesters. And for someone with an attention span as ... or two digits. For example, "Course VI" (which is the only one written

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018 ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... less spent the past few weeks curled up in bed reading and ignoring the ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020