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• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  to the MIT Game Lab as a working space. Jaw dropped when I saw how ... productive." Indeed. MIT is a weird place where people feel inferior to their ... imposter syndrome feeling. I've tried to shift my focus from what grades I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work ... nobody came into work on Friday, because there's WORLD CUP SOCCER to be watched. By the way, did you see that last US-Italy game? Three red cards

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  Counselors and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings ... up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet other new MIT admits I want to let you know about some exciting

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  theater to watch Hunger Games (go watch it - it's awesome!) and finished the ... career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last Friday: Boston --> New York --> Houston. I managed to get to New York

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do any good to pretend like it's not there and allow misinformation to run

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  Stata meta (two words which are very fun to say together) went swimmingly ... references to Game of Thrones houses! (Dorm Row… West Campus… Westeros… West ... Game of Thrones theme), and the answer to the Random meta was [annotation

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  , I've been feeling very unwhole. Stuck, almost. Every week seems to run ... about 10 hours to complete. If you are on the better end of the CS scale ... , then you'll be around 10-12 hours. I've been essentially trying to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to turn the attention specifically to you, the wide-eyed and apparently confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  my room asap because both my prefrosh were coming soon. I tried to game ... THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East Campus courtyard grill. A traditional email to EC residents confirmed that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  have until Mitra gets home to read this entry. So today the first issue of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it ... Kyle '08 and YiOu '07 looking beautiful together as they finish together

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  .178 Introduction to Java, I’d built a full-fledged* battleship game!** *semi ... organize closets, pivoted to a VR game of Would You Rather?, and then Escape ... stuck behind TVs and trees, and the only way to exit the game was to reset

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  collaboration speaks to the spirit of EC--it shows both togetherness and ... camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  very first song. See, someone's got to tell the tale Whether or not it turns out well Maybe it will turn out this time On the road to Hell On the ... to Hell, Hadestown in a song that introduces the cast of characters

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  smaller computers come together to carry out everything a small computer ... parts, it can be hard to put them together. Just because the thing works ... definitely cool ideas from my classes that have stuck with me. I also got to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  swaddled long enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing ... .  To check your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023