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• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... materials scientist who graduated in the early '70s and she told me about her

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes ... install one of these things at an Internet Service Provider, FastNet, in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... that having a job and participating in an extracurricular activity have ... , which is $8.75 an hour, and I was responsible for checking out books and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  Abyss, for example, is a show that will subsume you in a fantastical world ... cyberpunk show Psycho-Pass completely immerses you in an authoritarian future ... weeks, even. For me, writing 50 pages of in-depth character analyses and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the ... . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ... tighter, as if enough pressure would coax the misery out, but, for all she

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  , we constantly drafted up ideas for short films in an informal setting ... Throughout my 5-ish months as a blogger for the Institvte, I ... ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... happening during winter, a worse time for COVID. This specific week in 2020 ... Texas Roadhouse on Valentines’ Day. Not for an actual Valentines’ Day

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii and Japan you will visit for sure one day Clean that clothes chair u ... make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... helpful for your application, especially if you intend to remain in the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  from Random Hall at around noon for an impromptu study session in the ... Boston, drowning in an exhilarating expresso of sunlight and sharp cold air ... square completely, and so clearly this would be not an error on my part. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  having an SSD is too expensive, look for hybrid drives. They combine both ... , like Best Buy, even give you your money back in store credit for a new ... their aesthetics. Then, for everything else, look at their specifications

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  suggested I get an ergonomic keyboard since I code for long periods of time ... that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one. My mom ... stay open for two hours following the show. Seacrest said that 50 million people registered their votes, roughly 16.67 million for each contestant

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  International Baccalaureate, etc. For students in these systems, your results will ... , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... them in plenty of time for regular action decision making. EA Deferee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can ... Discovered About Myself Freshman Year... 1. There is no substitute for sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... decisions about choosing classes. Each faculty advisor comes with an associate advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in ... that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so ... Institut Curie. I spent my time at Curie in a few projects. For my main

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this ... noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning, gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd ... course 16 anthem? Background: In 3rd grade, we had to do creative ... 's my claim to fame. Some say I look ugly, Some say I look good, But outer

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006