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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second choice for where they want to live. The key to the whole party though, is ... (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  infinitely graceful reply (I even included a link to Random Hall's laundry ... the Infinite Corridor to assist the Laboratory for Chocolate Science in ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Date: April 12, 2005 7:21:07 AM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: your MIT dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa ... years ago, there was a really bad idea. It was built by First East (that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... on a daily basis. If I actually did want to publish a paper on the ... asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... this class teaches you specifically how to write safe, well-verified, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  of Fine Arts - one mandatory to write the first paper, the second as a ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  happen in The Tech in the few days before our most recent issue went to print. First I’m going to frame the situation. Let’s start here: Last ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  “Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  to make a rectangle. So one of the key things I forgot to mention ... separate story. To be concise, my first experience sucked hard but was also ... determined to be better than the mess I was the first time around. Forever

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  justice... ...um wrong story. Actually, I made my first visit to NYC one ... to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby ... first you have to make time to pause and interrogate yourself and when you ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  format, but are usually necessary. My first approach is to comb through ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on ... to getting to know you. To tell you a little about myself, I’ve had

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  communication skills are key to long-term career success. 'Being the best ... Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... people if that wasn’t clear yet. The first step was figuring out how to ... Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  her talk on aneuploidy, I just had to go. Firstly, I just learnt about ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  car keys brightly decorated with a keychain from the college I chose to ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023