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• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months ... going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  that Mollie took 18.01 her first term and came in with 27 units of AP ... but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... has its own atmosphere and culture." In fact the website is awesome, so ... Louis Sert, and was completed in 1982. The house's architectural themes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider ... named itself the Tech Nomads. From their website, here's the suggested ... of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  -- it is this Monday, November 1. In an effort to be helpful and ease ... in this thread. However, before you submit your question (in the ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -booting shortly after buying the computer, so that just in case I messed up again I ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

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

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

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... friends in Central Ohio. Calm upperclassmen who taught me how to pronounce ... . Rejoiced in the decided spring. Next, ready to blast off into our dreams

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although Boston conducted the most famous tea party in ... just barely coherent. There seriously isn't one line of dialogue in the entire thing that doesn't advance the plot in some way. They really just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  Well, this is my last day in Ahia (try saying it with me -- "Uh ... trombone in the high school marching band, and they're marching in the Rose ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  hurried over to buy our tickets "There's no crime in giving yourself over ... midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard ... against us so my miniskirt didn't flare up too much in the front, though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... UROP in a field [annotation note="Many people use UROP as a way to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in ... units of PE credit will most likely not be difficult. Though I run 4 miles ... -wannabes were), I need to get my 8 units the old-fashioned way: PE classes. (I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  lectured across the United States – roles in which he has become well versed ... The second Monday in October has long been an MIT holiday, but today ... Indigenous communities across the United States; and on the work that we as an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... started another in the Atrium (between 100 and 200 Technology Square

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind ... Counselor - or, as we call him or her in the admissions business - the GC. In ... people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007