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• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  turn in a pset or three, but that’s what P/NR is for, and I stopped ... lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional ... everyone time and money, not that I was going to be a total catastrophe in

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  )"]finding the friends[/annotation]. What I’m more interested in is how that ... confirm that Person A is free on Saturday at 12:00. In the meantime, though ... …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... to let me in. I think it's important to consider the fact that MIT is ... people have already had lab experience in high school, how on earth will I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the ... Amtrak. One day, it suddenly occurred to me that when I'm on a train, I ... and unbothered. The sky that day was not in a hurry: the clouds drifted

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... you'll do is look to your right and see Killian Court, realize that you

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  wrestling. Later, we both did varsity wrestling in high school, which is a ... tell a story well? What makes a good story? How do you create a story ... appropriate moment I yelled "LSC!" and got a reply from somewhere in the large

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... , neither do I want to pay for a Bluebike ride for an ~8 minute walk every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  on a roof or behind a door that is supposed to be locked does. however ... policy is that all hacks, even if not in illegal areas, are unauthorized ... major updating is supposed to be done soon, though that's been true for a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK ... , currently named Bump, is a hands-free baby gate that will detect whether the ... a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  shrouded in a dense fog, but I imagine that in the summer, it would’ve been ... , moderated by a fearless French girl, who knew all four. In that beautiful ... would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  . I was doing a regional reception in a city a few years back, and ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  . The problem set is due at 7:30 A.M. I turn it in at 7:27 A.M. March 1 ... to do with the meme--at least not in any clear way--I realize that I ... .M. (school isn’t in session yet, not that this is even slightly correlated to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  a sense that I’d really learned a lot in those three hours. My ... me get on track"]doing homework in advance[/annotation] is a very good ... , I feel like that’s a good thing, in a sense? That way, I let myself

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  that I want to take, classes that I find interesting. August is exciting ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an ... my room is no longer Institute Off-White (yes, that's a designated

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  that interest us. This is not a for-credit assignment, just a fun project ... ‘09 “During IAP, I am taking 6.470, which is a web programming ... -credit classes that do have tests and homework, but they’re definitely the minority

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... . Basically, anything that is designed to quantify a process will not only be ... created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I really didn't do too badly, and also that you could have gotten a zero and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... Chris, I hope you are doing well during this challenging time. My name is ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  such a way that we were closely tied to our heritage. Now that I live on ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  time difference ruled that out. I had a couple of old friends who, like ... you do the same for them. Here at MIT, we hold each other up in a ... . Don't do what I did, and figure that you'll blaze around independently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011