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• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... possible  Something that is the same as last year, but a change from our ... , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... if you have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications ... (what really is the internet, anyway?). I've spent a large amount of time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  This entry might make it seem like all I do is eat food, but I promise I do other stuff too. So early last week, my friends and I went out ... Chinatown to China Pearl where I had a little bit of this and a little bit of

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  submit pictures with my other essays... is it ok if I put in a web link in ... interesting story behind how I got interested in this and what I have been doing ... how I was motivated to solve this! Do you think that will be worth

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  that they actually close without a gap in privacy. I love how the ... unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... ?  How is any of this enforced except through shaming?  In the meantime, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... a Korean bathhouse. And it is my encounter with the jimjilbang that ... Do you ever feel like you can't do just one thing at a time? These

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  in rotation. Is the decision of what to wear that much of a burden to ... writing class, and a thesis prep class. “I understand the ‘buffet’ is ... -deprived, doing this is one of my favorite parts of the day. If I have time, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  , and Flows in Biological Systems. Mainly I am learning that I am not so ... cool class in that I'm just like "equations, equations, modeling (on the ... because it gives me a legitimate reason to use my crayons. Otherwise I just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• 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 ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post ... reassuring myself that i’m Doing Things and half stressing myself out even more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , but how can i be content when i know that i didn’t achieve p e a k ... . no longer would i fall prey to the Hellish Void that is YouTube—i’d do ... that shrouds me—am i doing the right by trading new endeavors and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  was the ceiling. Then it hit me. I realized that this would make a good ... down. I wouldn't let them down either. That's what MIT is about: putting ... My Mondays are horrible. I'm thinking about bringing a camera with me

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... mission to return the favor but knew that I could not do it alone. I wished ... . It wasn't until I joined LTI, though, that I realized how much more

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  I belted myself into my airplane-seat-that-doubles-as-a-floatation-device-in ... your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from ... into a sophisticated machine designed to verify that they weren't size

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I ... 4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... purpose. For the next iteration I tried using a different typeface for the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  it's got an umlaut. I just realized that I had a commenter a long time ... Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in ... something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... , I tried to do numerical analysis of the propagation of radio waves in

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... , but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a ... busy, it’s that I haven’t been busy enough. Last Monday, in MAS.S66

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  ?" That's a totally legitimate question, and the answer is that you could ... one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009