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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  is a gem. Om nom nom. *    *    * Rashed R. '15 (majoring in Course 2 ... brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome ... and Dragons). At one such event, a fellow alum gasped in excitement when

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of ... It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  backend for our app. We ended up crashing in the hackers’ lounge for only a ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that ... glasses of pink froth in front of us. A swirl of whipped cream sits atop

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  . The course, which recently has focused on the war in Iraq, is described as a class which "examines war in cross-cultural perspective, asking ... , live in a beautiful Back Bay mansion. More soon...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... during midterms season. In fact, he is so reliably unreliable that the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  still be reviewed in a holistic manner. Our office will be closed ... ! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  formally, given a list of N numbers in random order, where N is very large ... A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  completing your degree in exactly 4 years (which is not always a bad thing ... are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning by Doing a glimpse into the cool class-projects I got to work on last semester

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Snek_is_you.mp4"][/video] SNEK IS YOU!! This is a Baba is You dupe. It takes a minute to understand, but it is super fun to play ... .1903 - Introduction to Low-Level Programming in C & Assembly. This was a 6 week

  • by Hala K. '29
  • July 10, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  there is a distinct possibility that PUF has been hanging out in the ... This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A ... lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  unproductive feelings in a healthier way and to not blindly reject others when I ... i finished a single one in its entirety"]when I became bored of them[/annotation] helped free me from quite a bit of stress and tedium, which I’m thankful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  it’s an intermission in between two acts of a play that’s lasted too ... do tomorrow. My lack of focus causes stress, and the stress is in turn ... . Starting to push a boulder is difficult, and stopping it is equally as hard

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  -crushing death is sitting somewhere with me in the toddler basket of a supermarket ... leaning against the back doorway of a warehouse in a cigarette-break tableau ... naked velocity. It's dark and the asphalt is a gooey chocolatey blur

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course ... Fluids Engineering II) problem set. 2.006 is the second in a two ... understand. Erons ’12, also Course 2 (“I major in Awesome.”), is taking a break

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... entry every time there's a quick update (every several days or so) and in time you'll have a timeline snapshot of me! This is an experiment, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  during these times, when it feels like everything in the world is falling ... was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020