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• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  ; Spending Money You already took care of your school supplies and went back ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... proficient in Python back in my junior year of high school because of SSP. kids ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  you aren't alone! Lots of students have the same questions you do ... Eastern Time on November 1. Your school/teachers may submit their ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... butt pain. It was actually an infected [annotation note="A pocket of pus ... , he didn’t have a ton of information to work with… but I think it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  spiraled down the metaphorical toilet of terrible curriculum design. You ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... under my bed. I spent at least a third of my nights sleeping on it instead of my bed.  I have scoured thousands of my pictures trying to find a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing ... of proofs are impossible, but when conducted in the right setting with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  grade of high school, so I was super excited to see them again. We got ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  was founded in 1855 it was called the Farmers' High School of ... school with a graduating class of 570 students. Most State High graduates ... students) of their peers from other Pennsylvania high schools (—which does

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... my senior year in high school. They made good use of their limited

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email ... the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with my advisor to approve my classes last week, I had 60 units of classes

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  grain of salt/pepper/Adobo and a pinch of parsley. Don’t ask questions ... argument; that’s a sign of weakness that will immediately result in losing ... and judge all of the stupidity that ends up on your psets. Don’t admit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox ... . What if they've already reached their (nonexistent) quota of black

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  prospect of eight more weeks of school! Lame jokes aside, no, it’s not all ... it already?) with lots of information about...things...To be honest, I ... much of it! ...Anyway. I had fellow Senior House resident Milena write

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  found on my Facebook wall last night from Eric, one of the students from ... . It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to update your blog." So at the request of two of the most awesome high

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 hours, 4 major cities, and over 4,000 miles of amazingly exhausting travel, there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  , School of Rock and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. LSC frequently (i ... On the topic of free benefits for MIT students... Tonight (Wednesday) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005