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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional ... nursery room for other newborns. He saw twenty or thirty other boys and ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste ... will be waiting for you when you’re done. You have been warned. (I will ... experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , but I think they could have come up with something much cooler for such ... . (If anyone else has an explanation for this, by all means, drop me a note.) It's been an Institute tradition since about 1929 for each class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  engineer in the 1960s working for a Silicon Valley startup, gradually building a CPU out of simple components. It's not for everyone, but if you ... playing this game around a decade ago, and picked it up again because of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  so many eye rolls. For real though, "the people" is the only true ... Energy’s math pick up lines, or DJ T.A.G.O.E.'s mixes, or Malik and Miles creating a home on STEM TikTok. It all matters for the simple fact that this

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was ... now reading the messages that my high school classmates wrote for me ... and i said i'd catch up on my work and i just played hollow knight and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... , raptor attacks, children on leashes, or chainsaws for hands? A hilarious ... $20 for food. Come learn how to fend off the hunger once the free food

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  snowfall of the year, just in time for Thanksgiving Day. Wednesday’s weather ... before promptly melting just when I woke up. Most of my friends are ... be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Be thankful if you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  off an indication that I was only there for free stuff. At first I ... and beyond. That Friday I woke up extra early (9am lol), put on my ... on business cards, and I even snagged a spot for an interview with AT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  phone. Facebook blew up with updates on the status of the events. Police ... checking in on people, campaigning to raise funding for families affected by the bombings, and even organizing a breakfast for the campus police this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... MIT for others, to provide some insight that a high school student ... up 687 days early to appointments **actually 12:19 because my Internet

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... , not music. People probably have super-varied reasons for being involved

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  to the lonely 3 am campus, soaking up the light reflecting off the snow ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... Gregor for CPW. The walk to campus was miserable: cold air and colder rain and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  stand by that answer. Growing up, my mother always told me that instead of ... - and, for that matter, on me as well: tests, problem sets, untimely ... same goes for your SAT score. I will be the first to tell you that it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Boy and girl combine their knowledge of ... , and friends would come by and pick them up and say, "Oh, is this a ... and Jessica are doing at Nervous Systems. For that, we need photographs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an ... -sized stuffed panther doll in the middle. To this day, I have no idea what was up ... this activity. If you’ve been following my blog for a while and you

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... destruction and devastation in every direction. There are tent cities for miles ... something small to contribute, even if we're only here for one short week

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010