Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  don't yet have a sense of how students are using it, or finding it ... So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the awesome people I'm meeting (and delicious food I'm eating) next week. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  visit Ethiopia for about a month, so I couldn’t record her before the ... was due, and still didn’t have a subject. I was ranting about it to my ... shocking. I didn’t have a story or an idea, but I told Abby that I wanted to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  college. A secondhand Lenovo ThinkPad T420. 4.78 pounds, supposedly ... wrote up sort of a guide on how I dual-booted, so I wouldn't forget and so ... , ironically, I'm taking a class on Operating Systems this semester in which I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  disparity is my own doing – I didn't have a job during the year (although few ... many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  , and I'm taking this one with a lot more MBA students than my other ... is (seemingly) taking more. I came across a previous blogger's post ... working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a cla—' Stop

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  started the pset at 9:30p.m. What follows, friends is what is known as a ... was but 1 problem in the whole set, hence why at 6:30 a.m. this is what ... :00 a.m. which is an unpleasant feeling. I did learn some MIT vernacular

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm ... antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... ) @jonnysun on Twitter. If you don't, you should; his persona, and associated

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  we don’t want to. So with that, I’m going to try my best to give you ... and driving there starting at 1 AM on a Tuesday isn't ideal... but ... views of Boston and try food that wasn't from a dining hall. [carousel

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a ... have registered, you will have a host. (More on this soon) Speaking of ... . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and ... " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  rec wouldn't make it onto his priority list; I pictured a template with ... a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... fundamental laws of nature?” What you won’t find out from these websites

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can't ... Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  figured it out, but I'm slowly stepping back far enough to move forward in a ... saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... . Thanksgiving break finished off a stressful week. After waking up from a pie

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  with a shiny new pull toy! TA-DA! Clyde PacMan I'm now the proud ... . That wasn't the only eventful thing that happened that day, there was all ... the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  , Feelsbox, I'm a big fan of fun words, especially "yeehaw", which was used ... considered hosting for CPW? please make it so it doesn't look like a ... , but it's too late to ask my past self now. Is boba a juice?, If I'm

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  into a lot of part-time jobs. I’ll need something else to occupy time, earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I’m ... keep track of on a day-to-day basis). I don’t really have a better way

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  time have a pool in our backyard. My parents haven't totally gone into ... . It was a great job, and I'm very glad I had it -- having a job made me ... worked both terms for credit. You can't get both money and credit for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  major classes, I started to realize it wasn't for me. A perfect storm of ... choice. But then I realize that I'm following my passions and having a ... that I'm following my passion and having fun for a living. You will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , satisfied. In some way, then, I’m scared of being satisfied–not in a sigma ... cost. Every summer I feel that I get a taste of this settling. Whether I’m ... weekends. By all means a happy life, really.  Maybe I’m preempting a midlife

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025