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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  step and dramatically improve the lives of all the people you encounter ... most of you are facing right now, the dragon that felt like the final ... didn’t make it. Holding hands on the way to class. Falling in and out of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my ... 's definitely in the minority of computing choices. What you'll notice about MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  , I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that ... sugar and red meat out of my diet, and since those are most of the things ... Phantom of the Opera by my a cappella group, the MIT Ohms (I solo at 2

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  me of analyzing what is in the foods I am eating and determining which ... eat a yogurt parfait made of the following: One sliced banana 1 ... sodium and high in protein and fiber!  It also meets about 20% of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... . Malingap is someone giving me an impromptu tour of East Campus in the middle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the ... of course, he should do it. And then I started to think about the kids

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  Charles River, and even after so many years here, the beauty of Cambridge in ... written, a lot of the quiz questions felt pointless because they asked us to ... carefully. 18.404 Theory of Computation I love this course and the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... as if i was abruptly thrust into the world of icebreakers! and New ... have fallen in love with the strong sense of community i’ve experienced

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on ... the Class of 2021 will gather and President Reif will give a welcoming address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was ... fudge without a knife. Indeed, the power is ours! Of course, if my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... . Academically, I had a bit of rough time this semester, and the main reason was 8 ... give you a little background. As part of the GIRs (short for General

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... time, I came to the alarming realization that my first set of graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... , or maybe I'm more apathetic than the average person in the face of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015