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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a 12-to-18 month Master’s of Engineering, only available to MIT EECS ... where about a third of undergrads are EECS majors, it’s a popular option

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company - there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero

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

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of living in a building with hundreds of other people. finding another dorm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of ... textually accurate, they actually stole three days of break from us, but it was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... decision making process that revolved around this mess was probably one of the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... process in and of itself) to continue learning computer graphics topics that

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

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... their colleagues, discussing anecdotes of their families, children, or ... invisible gravity surrounding the way people treat you--a kind of feeling you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a ... of sugar. I was reminded of the days when Halloween meant spooky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on ... there -- I liked that, because it felt like I had my own set of toys that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ...you’re taking all of these kids from around the country and the world ... experience. It’s a magical shared experience.” -Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, 2012 commencement speaker (in one week!) --- Some of you might

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  ’) Happy Holidays blogosphere. Some of you may be wondering where I have been ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... Californian (Nor Cal REPRESENT!), 5'2", and a lover of all things food. I was one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of ... there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... four days later, it's still kind of hard to resolve all of these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  goods and bads of freshman year, what do you have to say about mit now? also, just out of curiosity, and its totally okay i you don't feel ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION: In Germany, the energy content of ... , for the low, low price of 1,50 euro per hour. However, the upper room ... working purposes, and I'm really afraid of visiting most sites for fear of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  Okay, I haven't blogged all week... the last week of term here is ... entire week was dominated by the preparation of, implementation of, and ... program consisting only of works that were orignally commissioned for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT’s deep well of events: book talks, participatory activities, gallery openings, film screenings… the list goes on! [annotation note="MIT School of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025