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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... had harmonized the Bach chorale in the wrong key. *This is only ... borrow in the next 15 minutes?” Real blog entry coming soon to a theater

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  my state, is a must-visit attraction if you’re near North Carolina in ... countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called ... was trapped very tightly in a parking spot, and I can’t parallel park or

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  ^"Every patch is a memory, every tear has a tale. These are the ... &Mein. That sounds more in line with the spirit of Thanksgiving than a shopping ... the feast, so here is a photo of Simmons instead. Hope everyone had a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  powerless. i wish love was the kind of thing i could package in a box and ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  in? Is life over for them? Are they destined to a life of destitution ... cardinal rule of non-parents, which is never tell parents how to be a parent ... how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  of living (as measured by a cup of boba) is much lower, and there’s a ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  2010 (if there was a newspaper article about you, feel free to send a ... a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  with 1-2 other students and he/she is usually a grad student or professor who is your point of contact for anything that you don't understand in ... because the last thing you want to do is to waste a supervision. The good

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly- bored ... those bonds that didn’t last, I’m a firm believer in the notion that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to ... 's room. Waking up to a loud banging noise is a pretty good sign that you ... was. In my panic, I had forgotten to ask. I slowed to a walk and pulled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  excitement is. I realize a lot of college is about learning how not to make ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really ... Foundation fellow Ted Ts’o said the Ksplice software is much needed by ... . It’s a binary patch capability that is highly automated,” said Ts

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  improvement is that I am not crying in a bathroom, and I’m handling it. I got a ... Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied ... everything about aerospace. However, as a bright-eyed freshman in an ... science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... nothing due. i wanted to spend a day in nyc from sheer boredom, but it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely, Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... ://dfa.mit.edu/stream/ ************************************************************************************* DONE. Hey guys, thanks a ton for helping. It was an intense push there

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... . Dennis Hopper was an actor who was in a few James Dean films and believed ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Caine is a 9 year old boy from East LA. His dad, George, runs a used ... Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla ... does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  .” What is an example of a day in your life?  Swimming student-athlete: “My ... in my dives, due to consistent effort and practice. Also my sister is a ... experience. I like… genuinely love swimming so I’ve had so much fun being a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... , is that you'll also find a bunch of related blog entries hanging out on ... out a little bit in the application process, as well as to provide a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008