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• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  waking moment is spent on some form of gaining a credential (classes for ... me in limbo for what to do over the summer. The options are: a) Stay ... ’s true for me and probably a vast majority of students, too. Research I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... hated the sensation The internet remains a home base for me, even as ... 've escaped that in-betweenness of young adulthood and swapped it for a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  't spend too long on this section, but Google Calendar is a typical go to for ... use. I got it as a gift from my mom and it works pretty well for my ... clicking a checkbox on a computer screen. I used to use a planner for school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004. Outside his door hangs a red ... Looking For A Good Fantasy." I stood in that entrance hall for a solid ... like that. I would look at a sentence, search for one that seemed to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a non-profit organization (Teach for America, Peace Corps), work in a lab ... ’m happy to report that this can also be a very exciting time for college

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  paid for a new computer with comparable specs. Also it ran Windows 7 ... compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I ... software (the Heroku CLI, if you're curious) working on Windows for a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... ’d walk along the beach for a stroll, hoping to find one. We did this for ... with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  time i'm teaching for a multi-week program. i'm teaching a crypto class ... for a type theory class taught by a friend. it's not too much work, but ... knowledge? i'm an sra for macgregor this summer, which is kind of like a gra

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  conquer the IRONMAN--just incredible! Shoutout to everyone at Culmann for a ... Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  most ironically for a RingComm made of 5 mechanical engineering majors ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  my undergraduate education! Phew.  What does that mean for you? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts ... My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge. (For more info, read one of my previous ... , wrote an article called “The People We Have Been Waiting For.” In it, he ... M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole ... finish a few pages for Friday, along with studying a bit for my (last ... desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  assumed my “camp identity” of Smile (everyone makes up a name for themselves ... more. I was responsible for arts and crafts, so I sat at a picnic table ... It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  , because it’s the epitome of brains and brawn. Contending for a national ... saw how girls in my sorority would leave for a weekend and return as ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  . While in Yerevan, Armenia for my [annotation note="A program that sends ... ) could finally take a turn for the better. “My phone’s broken,” I said to ... Marla to be fixed. In just one and a half hours, and for just $64, I came

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  works for me - I successfully merged into a band of '14s at a party and ... camps, as the internees learned to make a living for themselves and make ... finding my new home for the next 4 years :) Anyways, that is a lot of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week ... doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... BOOK FOR NINE YEARS ... ZOMG Oh and if you think you're going to post a ... camping out for the book: A lesson I learned from all of this was that if

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005