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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of ... use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... magnificient. Oh and there were lots of baboons too. We drove into the game ... habitat, relatively untouched by mankind. During one of our drives, we

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those ... excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... you ask), which is “a type of search tree that stores an associative array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... have an attention span like that? Chris has blogged about some of them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge ... City Hall     Mayor E. Denise Simmons condemns acts of ... Thornhill of First Holiness Church and the Cambridge YWCA    

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  to boldly go…

  

  our showerhead broke     happy last week of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  The results of the 2015 Putnam Competition were recently released ... of Mark Sellke '18, Bobby Shen '17, and David Yang '17. The Putnam ... of the Putnam--but for those who haven't, it is a six-hour proof

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... 've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats ... clipboards that are definitely over capacity. Some of those resumes will yield

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... away. There's a whole region of the pika basement called Reuse, where

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  take away was what everyone on every side of student health on campus is ... communication gaps are largest. I spoke with Dean Randall, Director of Student Support Services at MIT, and Dr. Alan Siegel, Chief of Mental Health

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night and then continue blogging regularly once every couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up this schedule (hooray for end-of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... heavy winds of Saturday showed no signs of dying down, and Corn Dog was a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014