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• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... Academy for elementary school. I got better at English and learned how to read and write in Russian. After school I went to an archetypal after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio: Course 6-7, or 7, or maybe 20.  I had loved AP Biology in high school ... -(semester)-life crisis where I asked myself why I wanted to major in bio: was it just

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  normalcy and community we can, my housemates and I have produced our own ... , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... can see, we have quite a collection here (not even counting the one I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful this was and how i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. missing out on ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on ... ). Theoretically, I live in East Harlem, since we have the East Harlem zip code ... "gerrymandering" means*. (okay, I also wanted to live in the most Democratic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... , and I remember it was nice being able to ask students questions in a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  trying to debug the worst code i’ve written in my life." hopefully you get the gist. this game popped up in my head today as i was digging through ... programs from events i’ve gone to in the past year or so. the exams were an

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  certification exam on Saturday. It was, um, ok. I guess. I find out how I did in ... mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I ... involved in the hack, so I knew all about it ahead of time. Last Saturday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  ."]MISTI[/annotation] internship, I participated in Vardavar, a festival where everybody–men and ... blessing. I got soaked–and so did Marla! In one last act of rebellion, she ... . I took the bus from my AirBnB in the hills, walked into the store, and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  ." Seriously, how many people can there be in Boston who even know who Bruce ... Corner Theater?! I seriously don't think you get how exciting this is. I ... to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... years old now! In celebration of my dad and I becoming certified EMTs ... were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  some cans in it, and I politely asked, "Is the pop in there for everybody ... you have to take a GRE? And how was it?" I did, in fact. I took both the ... his makeup off and ramble about how things were at PHS theatre back in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I ... prefrosh from Uganda, and I’ll try to see how many prefrosh events I can ... I can’t believe it’s been a year since I first delved into the MIT

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... GIRs, and I would never have to take another physics class in my life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  't have to know how to cook to live in a dorm with kitchens. I live in ... . What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates ... . The Dining Dollars account can only be used in all dining halls

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... shoes." "I'm going to be really annoyed if I have to buy a dominatrix ... many quotes about lesbians" Academic Life "i can do my midterm

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... rather than drone on and on about how much I dislike this pseudo-prison, I ... remember how honored I was when the sassy fashion queen herself gave me her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006