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• Blog / Travel

  Roadtrip Roadtrip and the Canada trip that resulted from that text message

  

  there, we spent the night at one of my relatives' places in Toronto and ... I think one of the best parts about being in college is having the ... to the neighboring country upstairs on a random weekend for the fun of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 29, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... 's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  determines the height at which the middle of each image should be hung. With ... the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... part of this organization since 2004, and this was my 4th visit to Uganda

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  touch with some of my friends who I met at the other Cambridge 🇬🇧 ... ! A couple of months ago, I got married to my best friend- who I met at ... In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... .112. Principles of Chemical Science, 18.022. Calculus, and 18.100B Real Analysis ... intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  permutation thereof, or anything at all, please comment below! I read all of ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy social life spirals out of control, and your self-confidence drops faster

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  Sugar Land (my city) that I can spend my last week of IAP at home ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... , well, IAP. Oops. :) So, here's a quick recap of what I've done so far during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like ... endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food. Generally this fits the pattern of every trip I've ever taken - happy once I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... kept this instinct of natural fear and uncertainty for months even at MIT ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you Annie:((("]graduated.[/annotation] This and the influx of new faces have

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  engineer of cognitive systems at Charles River Analytics, an applied ... . Every year at MIT, there's some large number of students who get into huge ... the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  sprinkles..) Yesterday was my last day of work at Schubert's Bakery in San ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  [/annotation] Translation: “I usually look at a bunch of recipes and use the ingredients ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  . Starry Night in the style of Mango[/caption] I stared at the solid black ... flourishes in every corner of MIT. When I dropped my stuff off at my host ... ’s a strange serenity to coding late at night to a mug of hojicha tea and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  defrosting, bits of ice forced into my intestines (by Cambridge’s spooky ... up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the past three weeks sapping so much time. The barrage of classes, problem

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013