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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  and a half hours in the pouring rain to lose a field hockey game. Bleh ... opportunity to point out an important fact about life at MIT: there are no ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  resource right at my fingertips. You see, MIT offers free MATLAB to its ... . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... software to stick. I brought it down to the NASA computing center about 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  importance of well-organized code that is [annotation note="Shoutout to 6 ... understand the first programming language, but hours to understand the tenth. I ... spent reading code, it's more important for a programming language to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  more important to heal than to try to train and re-injure myself ... to take between 5-6 hours for me to run the marathon and there was no ... beaten down to is actually another HOUR of running.  Running through

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes you think you will take? 3. What do you want to learn or know that you don't know know? 4. What type of environments are most conducive to

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  now have two guiding questions: to what degree is this platform ... ; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook ... back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... Classes are saying farewell as it's finally starting to feel like ... setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i ... 't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... not used to being "older" and "wiser." i took classes with people two or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to apply to several places, including Microsoft. To be honest, I was pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  fortunately I have an amazing editor and director to guide me. Misc. I am having ... have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold ... iteration. I met with my team this weekend to finalize our design: the moon

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it, then, for us to know what dorm we want to be our temp?" Omar '10 answered: "Drew, it is important for you to know which dorm do you want to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  controlled environment, negotiating, and gaining access to important people in ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day 1, and also the sequel to "Sketches from the Fall Semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  which didn’t seem super important. So then I decided not to go because it ... . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  really an important experience to you or just resume filler. While ... forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... gabbing about everything from data visualization to volunteering to the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  , however learn a few very important lessons on this lovely walk back to the ... I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to ... knew it was going to be cold. I had packed my tried-and-true winter gear ... to Simmons after hosting my radio show at 2:30 AM - I don't think I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , really. Possibly more importantly, no meal plans or dining halls in sight. (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  and want to help guide them through their first year. We can provide a student perspective on things like class choices, deciding whether or not to ... seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025