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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid ... spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  ." The cycle of hobbies is almost a guarantee in my life. A hobby I know I ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  course, this process is a little smoother—return offers from post ... dashed. Now, I’m stuck in a limbo of trying to figure out [annotation note ... line of progress from point A to B. In some angles, it looks like an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Meltdown On instability, IHTFP, and leaving sometimes

  

  about me, about MIT, and about why I haven’t talked to you in a month ... culminated in an hour-long cry session after a benign meeting with my biology ... said. I have a fantastic dean at S^3. Last year, I also came in feeling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The ... The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’m bored”), or why it is you’re interested in a particular area of research ... Harvard, and have no idea what a UROP even is." My response, in sum ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Stuyvesant's new building. Larry, who is a practicing architect in the city ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It ... . My only qualm is that it occasionally gives me a kernel panic, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God. It is the night before Easter. We are in the in-between, says another

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  yeast smelled like, so I stuck my nose in the container and took a big whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... everybody in the lab is at the annual Picower Institute retreat on Cape Cod

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  took the elevator to the new room, which is in 5 East. It’s a rather ... ? Twelve. MIT’s response is laudable. Our house team did a really good job in ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  History major is in this category). This probably gives you a sense of my ... your chances at a top medical school*. There is a "MIT Effect" in the ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  across the country!). I’ve participated in HackMIT, which is a large ... Claire S. '25 is a Computation & Cognition (6-9) major from ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the ... window when you turn a corner sharply, and makes the seats in this ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... there is this life, the life without my sister. My sister died in a car ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in ... spending a year in Cambridge is traveling around the UK and continental ... rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012