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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars ... . JSF is an IAP program sponsored by the French department for students ... ’s safe to say that none of us really knew what we were in for. We were met

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  would be MUCH appreciated. For an inside look into (a draft of) what we ... that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... Station in time for a cheese croissant from Au Bon Pain and a cup of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  consider this an editorialized or ideal "day in the life at MIT." Of course ... ’s project this semester is an occupancy tracker for a Cambridge park to help ... for an MIT Admissions Blogger meeting! S: Thesising to my February

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  take an Uber." I didn't have Uber. She called one for me, telling it to ... , and she offered to go check out for me. <3 Get lost. I had an Uber ... somehow made it to Back Bay in time for us to get on the train home. Do

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  district. I happen to know what he looks like because an assistant addressed ... , and an astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for ... about a politician by looking around his office. For example

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  other activities as well, helpful for breaks in between portions, but the ... year, but I hope they bring them back in the future for a perfect blend ... Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  . (hosed = MIT slang for being so busy that your to-do list takes up an ... . It's an entire sheet of loose-leaf paper. With 2 exceptions, every item ... section labeled "fun." Basically I decided that if my to do list looks like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• 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