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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with ... I didn’t know how to feel about it. I think I never truly realized

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I totally love that I started a web browser war in the comments thread of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2 ... in nearby schools! Number 3: Randomites Though I'm living in an

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with, I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time. My suitcase is unpacked-in fact I haven't even brought it down from the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  I'm taking a break from playing all the video games in this video game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  library in the building. I would wander down the shelves and pick up ... interesting. I was stunned by how good it was. A novel very much set in North ... (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked ... until other people came back in. At 6:45, I woke up and discovered that 1 ... handed me a pair of crutches and said he would teach me to use them. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a Quest ... you must let us know in advance by emailing [email protected]. After you email us, we will contact you about how to access our MIT Quest
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small groups on the recitation problems, because well...I need help in 18

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... variety of summer programs that I can suggest, first I would encourage you ... I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... this entry would be really anticlimactic if I hadn't gotten her room, so ... -Conner (as well as in Senior Haus, East Campus, Bexley, and I believe Random

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  [by Harrison Bralower '11] I distinctly remember that question when I ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper without it looking too conspicuous? When you're not wearing anything in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  final presentation I will be in part presenting on Monday, so that'll be a fun blog). In a nutshell, I've been working with my team to try and ... out trying to understand how everything works and in what ways you can

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed ... detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process of the cells. Specifically, I adapted an electroluminescence imaging

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... to would be in the Parent’s Hospitality Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... City, where I live in an apartment in the Lower East Side. Every night, I ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  people; yet, despite interacting with more people in a day than I would in ... exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023