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• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  out of the filing cabinet, which also serves as a table for the free ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I ... it to the queue, so that other consultants can take a look at it and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... looking at the skyline. 12. The parkour wall A consequence of Simmons ... always making the best omelettes and Thupten for running the stir

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  as a tool for topology, it is interesting to look deeper into the ... for first time teaching assistants in ESG(the Experimental Study Group ... last time I went, there weren’t enough TAs for the number of people there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  spoiled something dreadful for myself. I looked up recaps of the seasons to ... for each Friend—to generate data from the Friends script and make sense ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some ... way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  cookbook. Also, the food they make looks so good... And because I am very ... ignore the rest of the world for a little bit and, as I peruse the aisles ... . Someone who knows what they're looking for and what they're going to do

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  , lauded for its innovation. The cute graphics and innocent opening belie a ... . A young man, who didn’t look very intelligent, spoke to the man next ... ." "Are you a monster?" "The very worst one." "You don't look like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  model and made a PR for sending [annotation note="the name of a project ... ."]jira,[/annotation] [annotation note="the most commonly used website for version control ... what kubernetes is for a moment to walk to the desk of [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  figurative (and for many literal) feet, not only for the quality of the speaking, but the substance of which he spoke. For many people, Colin really ... with you all. Here's a video of the speech, and below is the text. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  parent’s wishes. I asked for purple walls when we first moved to the ... .[/annotation] For those who grew up like me, it became the first mode of distinction ... new wall plate. For me, the bedroom that marked this shift in ownership

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  (incorrect) arrows for a few J-pop-filled hours in the Random Hall basement ... , Random Hall had squarely parked itself into the space reserved for home ... in-transit photo I snapped of Rachel '12 as the subway pulled up looks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  like the wind.   5:25 PM: I look up from my computer for the first ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... -years take"]8.01 [/annotation] tutoring, but I haven’t even looked at the Pset

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... for the men’s heavyweight team and the man who would teach us the basics ... the team! If you're interested in walking onto the team for the 2015

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i am, anything i’m not (rush, part 3) and finding out that i'm both

  

  and, for the first time in a week and change, didn’t have anything much ... next step would be in this situation. And, for the most part, they all ... remembered one of the rules that I had created for myself before starting Rush

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 15, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  for “moths brazil” and this was the first hit. Look, here was an ... internships. I wasn’t looking for a standard internship, but I had nothing to ... identify them all? *gulp* Well, this was what I’d asked for Dawn over the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  philanthropist behind such ventures as the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at ... board for a job opening as technical editor for the first computer ... asking me for millions to develop new products, but I don't have the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  whipped cream—just whipped cream (people looking for the pudding in the ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1.909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  Astro department canceled classes on Thursday and Friday for the AeroAstro Centennial ... students looking up to them from the audience. Then Michael Collins stands up ... strives for. Engineers, astronauts, scientists of the present, past, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014