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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  messaged Petey, “I am reluctant to write because I am afraid of what will ... year.)  [carousel image1="110371" image2="110372" image3="110370" /] In ... served. I can’t condense this shift—mine or campus’s—into a few sentences

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  I clicked on the Buzzfeed article about banana slicers or puppies with ... leaving things until the last minute, or a classic case of Murphy’s Law, but ... furious typing. At 1:54pm, I stood bleary eyed in the Maseeh Athena cluster

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  by semester or department and search for keywords. ((Side note: It's actually a pretty awesomely common phenomenon than an MIT student will just make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  scores, or leave the boxes blank?" Either way is fine. We will use the ... by January 1?" Your application will not be affected. We will have your ... (and other universities) I will have a problem of some sort? (VISA, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  was already comfortably within their reach, or felt they did not possess ... high school. In fact I loved my high school. No matter where I went or ... than willing to spend a lunch period just going over hypothetical

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  best practices will guide us in the years to come. [carousel image1 ... should be very soon, at which point I will blog very loudly about it (hint ... history of Illuminations and how we hope it will serve our visitors

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  subsequently find an online article, blog, or forum dedicated to the subject that will suggest further directions for investigation or provide an ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT ... before or since. I mean, that semester I'd think that I was ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global ... other planet attack us and force us to come together as a global entity to

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  intersections, parks — evoke moments in the past, or sometimes collections of ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 ... of the places that have the most memories: 1. massachusetts ave

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  little patience or tolerance for anything that wasted his time. Whenever he ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... minority students relax? Will I be accepted if none of my clothes are from

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  ), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for ... would like to room with a female student, or is that a given." We will ... the new SAT, you say you'll address it after May 1st. Why the delay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  papers, pieces of literature, or system specifications. Even though a lot ... or systems that use it. For instance, the second week, we focused on ... enough data to evaluate their feature sets, the authors generated their own

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  shaped or for sharks??? )? Come to Blahaj FAC tomorrow at 5 pm in Talbot ... . [carousel image1="90701" image2="90700" image3="90699" /] Finally, Ikea ... in streams to the point where it reached #32 on the Billboard 100

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  -sets weighing on me or exams looming in the near future. [caption id ... subconscious for months but that I’ve not had the time or emotional capacity to fully address before. Why in God’s name did I declare Computer Science as

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  produce this list of all US schools that provide at least $1 million in financial aid to students who are not US citizens or permanent residents. As ... students come in with full scholarships from their countries or generous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  ... but it turns out that tonight, 2 AM is really 1 AM again (blast you ... and leave the desk unattended at 1 AM? Just close up at 1:58 and avoid ... classes in which that problem might potentially be addressed: 14.64: Labor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public ... data to the statistics file, where I analyze it by type of day (schoolday, non-schoolday, or workday) and by year (freshman, sophomore, junior). It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  that in years past~) Believe it or not, though I have been to Ethiopia ... know or learn the language). People in my high school would forget that I ... values. For better or worse, it’s a simple fact that the world is more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017