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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at ... update to say that I made it safely back to Boston after 20 hours in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  for the dorm, I'm on call in case of emergency, and I get free housing ... this dichotomy in which you have the power to either save the world or ... accelerator. This accelerator is to be used to detect fissile material, in hopes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  ’s all just because of P/NR? How will I be in the spring, when I have to ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is ... considered a gap year in pre-covid times would have been to give myself a break

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  in their freshman year and goes on to graduate. You can do it. And how ... as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you ... in this situation, MIT Admissions is willing to give an extension on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as ... to investment bankers to recruiters. It is kind of cool because I get to write code in jeans and a T-shirt on Wall Street. I am writing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks in The Waiting Room that many EA admits have been wondering how they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Companies and universities are getting in on the game. I’m glad to know that ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in ... , urging the graduating class to get out there and "do interesting and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... , become mini-experts in everything from 3D printing to bowling mechanics. If

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to ... I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  trying to get through it. But now that you're going to college you're going ... welcoming place to work out what I was comfortable with and how I wanted to ... not be the most effective allies. It can be tough to feel comfortable in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note ... applicants -- in fact, we think it took us longer than it ever has before to ... to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  appear to be how much of it is still scripted and staged. Despite the Tech ... about the show in Wednesday's edition. But, fear not! MIT is getting ... reality TV show to be on, it'd be The Amazing Race. How 'bout you?

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... to *intructions withheld*. Last year, you had to click on the dot in "Sept. 19 & 20", and, the year before, you had to click on the "C" in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  Hardware, to the Customer Team. In addition, we regularly meet to discuss how ... day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office ... major projects in order to split up important work and keep the product

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  facebook group last night, and wanted to copy it here in case anyone out ... ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * hey everyone! just wanted to pop in and say hi as decision day ... much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send ... voting tactics to win, as others in the competition have – we ... successful and failed policies have been deployed to address it in the past; [2

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me ... back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... Market to stock up on food in case I couldn’t get out during the blizzard ... one in which we get to build solar cells with the help of viral phages

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  those in charge listen to the input that they get, compared to how they ... /dropped off anywhere in the immediate campus/Boston area. I went to get my bus ... at some pictures of how kittens look to get started, and also how their

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022