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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to ... that somebody getting a bloody nose in USA-Italy just meant it was eve ... system and advancement of teams to the round of 16... how France are almost

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... 'd ever wanted to go, I'd gotten to in at worst an hour; most of the time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... correctly: MIT announced that students in the dorms would be able to bake

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... motivation among friends to get stuff done (in startup speak: GSD.) Halfway ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... 's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  program or grant to get you there. And it’s not just study abroad: there ... tricks to getting yourself around the world on MIT's dime. Start: 0 mi ... get work experience, AND you get to travel at the same time. If you ever

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really stressed out- but all I can think about is how the finish line is really in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  event ended in order to get back for my 6.177 group presentation, and didn ... Fair. The Logistics Team got up at 5am to get the entire career fair set up in ... what to eat first and how to get to the bottom of the plate let alone see

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing memorized, and I grew tired of seeing the same little letters in the same ... cause me to be instantly rejected from MIT, I calmed down slightly, went

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  international students can no longer get visas for their parents to participate in ... appearance. It’s cool to be able to get stronger, to do tricks in the air on ... video In October, traveled to Shanghai to be at my company’s China

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not going to tell you how to spend your weekends, but do be sure to spend at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  did you decide the order, and how to place the pieces in the gallery ... because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your Exhibition”, and apparently there’s a WikiHow article called “WikiHow: How to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  resubmission to our journal. Getting to “Reviewer 2” Albert Einstein (in a nice ... to be Paper 2; in a few weeks when I get feedback, I’ll need to revise ... : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  . People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets and nametags ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job ... spring of last year, I realized I really wanted to be in California for the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  understand the intricacies of our code, other teams in order to figure out how ... barista, en route to my desk. 9:20am, Nice Window Desk (no cubicles in ... system (error handling) didn’t know how to fight, and it was up to you to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... taught me how to use the kiln in the Edgerton 4-409 makerspace. When ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails ... will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my ... different settings), make sure to log in with either your Gmail, Yahoo, or MS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I ... in bed for a good ten minutes before getting up. This was it. I looked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... , though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025