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• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue, surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... EVERYTHING IS RAINBOW AND SHINY Meanwhile in18.02 (Multivariable Calculus

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  were a fish, he'd have provided much of the water in which I swim. When ... showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... receipts in Apple stores. Not so much as a single pixel passed through the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... !” speech, because I’d spend forever and a half gushing about how cool and ... short of a pyromaniac’s. https://youtu.be/ytdqcV3HV4o Is it real fire

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... Palm Beach, and tomorrow is meeting #3 in South Miami at 11am. A full ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... Ride a swan boat in Boston Common Take a Duck or Trolley Tour Try some ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... is crazy. being honest with yourself, too. i’d say i’m a very self ... want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  always surprising how much you can play around and experiment in such a ... always ends a run. But likely the most powerful tool in the game is the log ... comments. Logs When attempting to enter a log, the best strategy is to go in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... ! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  get paid for a UROP? How much?" First, money is important for college ... interviews intense, or is it more of a "you're in unless you do something ... that is since I can't think of any single majors in math that I know. A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  dealer: In the movie, Ben's major is "pre-med." Of course, there's no pre ... .009: Product Engineering Processes. 2.009, like 2.09, is a team-based competition ... Robot. Their CEO, Colin Angle '89 SM '91, makes a cameo in the movie (I believe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's kinda a chonky set of claims, huh? I want to be very clear that this is in ... 's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could ... . How could I be a senior when I had never even been a junior? I was very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always ... 't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... someone, somewhere, out there, who is better. Chesterton, as in "Chesterton

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT, and regret that we ... Professional Practices, May 1 is the "National Candidates Reply Date," the agreed ... , we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  which Marilee (our dean) talked about how insane the world is becoming in ... her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  It's been a little while since I've blogged, which is partially ... symbols, and then something I likely used in a python assignment? Hm. I have ... 't Have Shazam  This one's a real classic. I refuse to download Shazam (in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  department's UROP administrator, and turn it all in by a deadline. This is how ... I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a ... -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006