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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I ... record, we were indeed in a viewbook planning session - Saad you were right with your first post - always trust your first instinct! ;-) I'll post

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  closest-to-perfect space here at MIT. P.S.: I may remember more in a ... greatly. It is a special MIT gem. Talk to your family. Stay in touch with ... get lost. Remember what you love and keep that in mind when picking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what ... city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I ... costs of claims against a proposed national asbestos trust fund contains

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  school and growing up, I thought I should write a bit about how different ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how ... .[/annotation] I was in lab from [annotation note="a completely unexpected series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  explained to me the concept of a disempowered no.  What should I do? She ... they would check in before my ex graduated and I lost my opportunity. I ... clicking out. In many ways, I’ve been desensitized to my own past in a way

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  a jaded programmer. What happened, you ask? Well, in my senior year ... graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... called Stripe, founded by some of my MIT friends during a summer in which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  as a whole. Remember how I said that the Internet was a more trusting ... awfully ominous edifice: But Back In The Day™, W91 served as a wind tunnel ... more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  discussed. How do you apply for financial aid? Should you apply for it? What should I expect? Also, the local ECs will introduce themselves. They'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... free tickets to see the US women's soccer team play against China in NY ... 's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  shipped off the design to be manufactured in China. This is what returned to ... , along the street of Mass Ave in a rage-induced haze, then returned after I ... —they did it. The dream came true. I mean, what a powerful, crazy, utterly

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  If I had to explain what Junior year's been like so far.... I'd say ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ="someone decided i should be a director. what?!"]new job[/annotation] and I was just ... . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... ’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really ... ? Just kidding! LOL. Q: Oh! You’ve got jokes! No, I am not a fool. I know that the amount of financial aid is a consideration in your college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... : something I discovered during CPW - a great time to check out something

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... with the decision-making process. In High School, I did a lot with FIRST ... process a zillion times before, and I can’t imagine that I would have been

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  , getting a good sleep before a big long exciting Saturday in Boston :) I ... area. In 2022 I attended CPW and live-streamed a marathon cross stitch ... metallic floss - yikes, I was a obviously living high in the moment.  

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  Story About Muti") in January, I stopped for lunch at a Chinese hot pot ... communist China. I'm proud to represent her at another tech school a bit to ... in Mountain View, CA, as a UROP. I UROP in Mediated Matter at the Media

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  writing in my journal, a curiosity struck me to check when the last time I ... I've been living in New York City, in a cruft house named LoTaD, short ... Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in ... ju[s]t need to know what'[s] the right way to do it, and [s]hould I [s

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  After a not-so-brief hiatus, I'm back at the Institute! Over the ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one ... -efficient buildings in developing countries, like China, that are both cost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006