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• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  magazine to "celebrate the spirit of creation". This was the very first MIT ... screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet ... students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... pset parties***, the awesome people - but if I had to narrow it down to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  to your questions - but this was too good not to post right away. So here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have ... period than if you were to pursue them separately or elsewhere. But it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if slightly awkward) compliment at Meet The Bloggers, to "Joooliyah" for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  learned back when I was first on my way to MIT, as well as things that I ... There are some big things coming to a close as my summer begins to wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... lectures in the first week and then we're broken up into groups to create a ... weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  were...... Finals. On the other hand I was about to be able to go home and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  ago when we first arrived. It's incredible, to say the least. Right ... get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being around recently. However, I will make it up to you guys over this summer ... was a terrible idea. At the end of the first semester I had to scramble

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  newspaper, and I decided to help out the staff at The Tech. I wrote my first ... technology?" Here's the story: I went to a school called High Technology High School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  blankets out of old MIT shirts, but the idea first occurred to me as ... experience, so the first thing I think I'm going to do [annotation note="At the ... parade! It was the first Pride parade that I actually got to be in, and I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  [/caption] Nevertheless, I persevered, and five days after my first run, I managed to ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the ... , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers ... congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  the first to go come the zompocalypse. Seeing this got me thinking ... Hackers don't waste any time hacking CPW this year. It's the first ... , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... through high school without doing any work, then I got to my first 8.01 test ... percent on a test at MIT, rest assured that you guys will be the first to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  narcissism and desperation to be the main character tells me I'm the first. I ... and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020