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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  a bus from L.A. to San Francisco, arriving there sometime in the ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... -to stress-relief jam is usually Shake It Off, and after several hums of “I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  other astronomers. I'll visit friends in San Francisco, fly back to Boston ... that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  blog, part of that was a lie. Parenthetical note, sans the parentheses ... kitchen of Random Hall had melted from a relatively-docile social hub into a ... slowly deep-fried our brains over the relentless course of 63 hours. Before

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  San Francisco, and carpool with Sue, one of the interns who lives down ... one There's this thing called a "cruft house", when a group of MIT ... Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  .S. route (Florida to San Francisco). Bike and Build is the epitome of a lot ... people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  working at a startup in San Francisco when the announcement came out in 2001 ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is: # Be subtle. Don't leave evidence that you were there ... saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam): a run around Central Park a walk way down 5th ... tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... working with la Fundacion San Alonso Rodriguez, an NGO  that provides ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  together"]mega-director’s[/annotation] dinner while I was in San Francisco ... How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... follows, sans attribution as per their request.) Hi everyone! This guest ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015