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• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  experience of being in college with them. He tells me that I’m overthinking ... called HMMT. Princeton’s version of this is called PUMAC. HMMT sends a contingent of roughly twenty or so people to PUMAC every year as volunteers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... get it approved because you haven't really heard of anyone else doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer science classes in general; as a math major, I feel like a lot of concepts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on their decisions. doing so can be exhausting and bring lots of emotional

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  college. Add to top that off, this would be my last major round of finals of ... few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... , a part of MIT TechX. Every year, we organize HackMIT, a weekend

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ducks instead of koi fish) Oh, and every room comes with one of these

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be ... had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick ... . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest ... stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  this is college, and this is MIT at that, and there are tons of smart ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are ... possible after your grades are available; by the beginning of February would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008