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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  of such important MIT Halloween traditions like Next Haunt. I was ... -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture here. Students pitch in their talents

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  though, it’s easy to fall into the routine of thinking of yourself as smart ... can fall into the trap of thinking that your success is due solely to a ... anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I ... you cook oatmeal on the stove. You boil a cup of milk. You can hear it ... the heat down and add half a cup of one-minute oats and you stir

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  wanted if I just put enough time into something. After a couple of exams, I ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question ... bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  of underrated wisdom and insight into Iroh and his past, as he explains to Zuko the importance of learning from other nations and shows him how ... screenshots of important scenes, and compiled a long PDF of the three episodes

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  activities) and invite users to rate their chances of getting into certain ... of getting into a selective university is a clear and validating ... a reminder of my laziness.  I thought getting into prestigious

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  everything around you is grayscale. All of your clothing, furniture, and decor ... color... And what if one day, a bright, red apple falls into your life ... redness of the apple unnoticed. Ok, this is not an original intro. It was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the ... leave your hall. Of course it’s also super important to make friends with ... people are often really scary, but important. I kept a list of new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  importing and compiling all of the individual MT installs into the new backend ... way. The most important part of your job is to remove the roadblocks and ... among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  ="56804" image4="56807" /] The events bring a little spark of joy back into my ... -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  especially important to me to understand the experiences of the immigrant ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  locked (I never bothered looking into it earlier). The School of ... how my MIT experiences ties into the progression of history at large. ... Over the last few weeks I have found five historical videos of MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Algebra II, and it’s obviously important that they learn as much of the ... help. I put so much of myself into tutoring and mentoring that when one ... When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  important because many of us owe a lot to the people who have supported us ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that I heard over and over again from mouths of all shapes and sizes was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  , separating into three different tables of query, webapp pages, and database ... from the previous week into the state machine of the ESP32 so that once ... display the maze into the state machine of the alarm clock and added a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  a bag of chips (or four). Meanwhile, life decisions feed back into ... , before my phone rang and jerked me out of my stupor. A friend was in the ... ..." A solid minute of silence, broken only by more interjections of my own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  creatively, and perhaps most importantly, we love to do all of these things ... the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  aligned in roughly north–south lines. It’s important to note that many of ... has the dorms, the student center, and most of the athletics buildings ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  glimpse into the wonderful if sometimes confusing world of MITese! The ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008