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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  face stuck on my screen. 10) But time to post this entry and get back to ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours ... lonely towards the end of the month. But I did appreciate getting to see ... killing time in London until my flight back to Boston. Text for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... president of a dorm Built a CPU in 6.004 Learned how to CAD (computer ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... well beyond trying to get into college.   In my first couple of ... odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  for high school. Sometimes it's possible to get extensions or have ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... Boston has to offer. Get started soon. Sometimes, you should just T it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  somewhere that's not boston. i want to get out of boston. living in LA ... not as a programmer drivers in LA don't know how to use their blinkers ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  you want to get into and how long the waitlist is). Also, once you get ... honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really ... , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  What is the particle in a box model? How to make ice cream at home ... parasites which could live in your eye Commensalism and you How to avoid being ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon ... There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... planning to spend the rest of the day buried in orgo like an ostrich in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... thread about the first AI model, Shudu, who often gets hired in place of ... to the 12/9 MIT Class of 2023 Ice Skating Event Cami: Tweet on how AI

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  about finally getting more piercings to care about how silly I looked. I ... . I went to Stingray with Priscilla in June 2019. To get there, we took ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to ... to October...) and building gliders for it. Running away from getting ... .  (4) She had to retaliate against getting cake smeared on hers. >

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  Nina Lutz for multiple hours in editing, to my family for being awesome in the videos, to my best friends Diann Huynh and Chielo Mbaezue for ... like to hear me talk about getting to MIT and my last days at home then

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... hear about how cool MIT is. In either case, I have something for you ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... second semester is similar, except that if you pass, you get a letter grade
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  actually in Building 26, which is now home to MIT's most well-known lecture ... support staff, were funded in part by IBM, How is timeshare computing similar to cloud computing? Think of your laptop. How many hours a day do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  get *accepted* to these programs, and would be in school for another ... 't really know how to get here anymore. I tried being a software person at a ... to participate in and enjoy gaming, but don't really get to *create

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020