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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and scientifically rigorous discussions about random topics and thinking "oh man, I ... the nerdy adventures of Laura, Rick, Adelaide and Mason....West Coast

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  "] ‎[/caption] The water is painted with soft teal waves and tinged with an amber ... spill over. I look out into the distance and squint at where the sky meets ... , the glistening sun rays dance on the water and, behind me, a night

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work ... interpreters, bytecode compilation, and garbage collection. i'm having fun ... uninteresting. 6.1420 [6.054] fixed parameter and fine-grained computation. a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... ="Intro to Computational Thinking and Data Science. Runs for one quarter"]6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... requirements or statistics. And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: Recommendations, School Forms, and Other Documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  share with you guys. I had a bunch from Sadoway's last 3.091 lecture and ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  attempting to refute that - my blog is what it is, and the folks who "get it ... Creativity - thanks for your post and I am so sorry to hear about the student at your ... try to keep some perspective when it comes to life and disappointments

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  ="83267" image3="83268" image4="83269" /] 7. The terraces The epic views and cold ... note="Design and analysis of algorithms"]6.046[/annotation] psets ... a different dorm – and still go to the lounge and fit in. 9

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... ="thing that compiles and runs code from a particular programming language ... are esoteric programming languages (esolangs), which are impractical and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... brand-sponsored twentysomethings who taught me how to layer my jackets and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  interesting songs, at least to me, is who’s crazy/my psychopharmacologist and i. [DIANA] My psychopharmacologist and I Call it a lover's game He knows my ... through mit’s mental health and counseling, is actually positive. i’ll have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  would be nothing but an empty husk *dramatic sigh* making and curating ... freshman year playlist before i started school last August. and since my ... Out by T.I. — this was the first Mocha Moves audition piece and thus the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  first and to put fragile items on top. When I’m not careful about this step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... are on friends / minsan, about Eraserheads's "Minsan", and soulsearching ... name is about [annotation note="The difference between Tagalog and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how ... about databases, and distributed systems, and operating systems, so I ... . I'm looking to pivot more into backend and full-stack roles. Because I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  you from the minute that you step onto campus as an MIT student, and ... amazing. Exciting. Insane. Definitely take a look at the main MIT site and ... million possibilities for each minute, and you would go to every single one

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . Seriously, a couple of weeks ago as we sat in a bar and watched Spain beat ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all ... describing the definition of that perfect word. And often your friends will say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... and stanford. I want to do engineering, so MIT seems obvious. however, i don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my ... friends! Please come visit us at Random Hall, and come live or hang out here ... pirates, chills with mermaids, and argues with fairies. We eat all of our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  The summer before college was my last summer of being 18, and thus my ... ?) where you read and reviewed five books. I figured to optimize my books read/time spent ratio as an 18 year old, I would read short novellas and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024