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• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  on storefronts in America since I was home. The Walk began to feel ... street. We were in suburbs again, the sort that cling to a highway, where ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data ... discussions is that, in most cases, the person selling out never truly believed ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... 'll admit the line is a bit fuzzy in some cases. Consider, for example, 12 ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  solution to work through even the most impossible-looking scenarios- the ones ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... real anymore. Case in point: at this very moment, snow is falling from

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons ... like toads."]story.[/annotation] The back yard is still mostly weeds

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  late to find an internship in another country right now, which is cool ... , I'm pretty sure I know where I left it in the cabin, so I just have to wait until the cabin is inhabited again so I can ask people to look for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Life is good will try to break the Guiness World Record for most lit jack-o-lanterns at the Life is good Pumpkin Festival! In addition to jack ... -Conner Apple Bake: Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  life, so much so in fact, that for the rest of this week, I am no longer ... from the Student Center to the abode that is Random Hall. Beyond our ... . If you're asking yourself, "Should I go to Thing X?" the answer is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... /when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... that Gettysburg was, in fact, the most important battle of the Civil War

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and ... cook myself and I’ve survived this much, but props to the people who can ... . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  timestamp links to skip ahead to that point in the video: Silver team: fire ... process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students ... . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Miserables. Jerome gives me a ride to work most mornings, but the night after ... barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... the international crowd seemed to pretty much expect everything else we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying ... 's scrambled eggs tutorial and threw some cream cheese in. The trick is to 1 ... 's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  somewhat similar experiences, it is easy to just stay in the international ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... heavier winter clothing and buy it once you get to Boston, that is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... asked I've been think, most of the UROPs I've read about are in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  /No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... exams or psets in the way. 6.177 and SP.800 happened to both take place ... Senior World Championships is coming to Boston in March! Definitely stoked

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... philosophy class in the freshman year learning community Concourse, which is a ... .001) → Rank D I found myself struggling to care in this class. The way beams

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  recent years - and is most commonly known in the US as Libertarianism. To ... or theft. Or in its own words, “the minimal state is the most extensive ... to an argument you make is really important in most any scenario, but

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle ... about why sophomore fall is such a grind. We came to the conclusion that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020