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• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led ... International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  MISTI's eleven country programs offer internships in every MIT ... fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... The host: I worked in a small software engineering team that are

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  see it. That said, there's one in New York in September, and I think ... one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  awesome CPW weekend. In fact, CPW didn't even exist...What did exist however, was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George Keller '48. He lived in the Bay Area, was chairman of Chevron Oil at the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  now know almost everyone who sent a picture in, and ironically one kid ... , bad joke.) who may or may not like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, I didn't ask. He maintains that he is in fact NOT making a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  well as did a retreat with all of our friends to a cabin in New Hampshire ... , and CMS.616 Games and Culture. I decided to try something new this ... classes I'm interested in, rather than just trying to fulfill random

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  'm quantifying. I try to make plots in a way that allows each plot to show a new ... myself in the past: What do my work patterns look like? Confusion, by ... ' new laundry system? Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis Next, I ask myself

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  products for possible use in MyMIT Write & design new invitations for ... This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  experimental class about a new or niche research area); in this case, it’s the ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  function f in their prompt, can generalize and figure out the value of new ... /films/literature in particular) cook food travel and see friends maybe bike to New ... personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you ... leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year ... the rest of my years at MIT. right now, i'm living in a house with six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  were brainstorming new ways to feature students voices in admissions ... hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... blotted by some cruel impressionist painter, my days in quarantine seem to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1) Started the year off in India, surrounded by family. 2) Did my very first

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... stats: who am I? Jude, 20 years old originally from New York

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  the new stuff you'll learn! Making friends is hard! I’m already certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in Seattle because I wanted to try something new. I'd heard from many people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018