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• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she ... for the evening. In fourth grade she signed me up for a free class at El

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  that maybe someone had just put it down for a bit because there was so ... , but I wasn't entirely asleep, so I'm still not sure if I'd wake up for a ... at East Campus working on a 5.111 (chemistry) pset with a friend. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  University, had this advice in his most recent entry: 1. Time for a self ... information as possible. You may also want to create a ranking system for each ... replies throughout this week. I assure you, we have a space in the class for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  architecture major plotting to become a writer), I went into journalism for ... (for a friend's wedding! a lovely reason to return), ft. a peek at the ... at are gone (RIP Shinkansen, Steam Cafe, Cafe 4…are food trucks still a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ! Well, let's back up a little bit… For one reason or other that I cannot ... might come from having been at MIT for a while already - from becoming an "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... ; Binged on reading Reddit and various macros. I'm particularly a sucker for ... difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with ... students and probably cooler) for next year, so we decided it would be a good ... for grad school. That would have made this whole decision business a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  lines increases exponentially. For a 6 oz Iced Coffee from Dunkin' Donuts ... I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  what? I built a loft from scratch!!! Been sleeping on it for two weeks ... something: use a chop saw! My experience volunteering with Habitat for ... 11 pm, when all the slats were in place. (We broke for dinner, and a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  online work can be a helpful distraction for those of you who are waiting ... that Twitter offers as a medium for storytelling that make it a very ... —“OMG guys, cut it out!”—he’s going to be conspicuously absent for a period of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can't really identify. so here is a guide, for those lost. this emotion is

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A ... back in Boston for a week now. Roosters replaced with phone clocks. Kites ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  Massachusetts Avenue than I have for a while. I saw some really pretty sights ... going for a run along the river when she saw me) and we got to catch up on ... For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  's some suggestions for what you should suggest: 1.Living with a roommate 2 ... This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... Science graduate and was looking for a Mechanical Engineering student to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  sometimes not. 18. Being afraid to ask for help is a very major handicap. 19 ... This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library... one of a very short list of places where I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  the time. For those of you with an Asian Students Club or a Film ... film for discussion, from both a cultural/sociological perspective and ... , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  they’re hosting me here in Marburg with ~35 other grantees for a six ... University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  the academic bar isn't lowered for athletes. Earlier this year, we had a ... to be easy, especially for a Division III, M.I.T. player," he said ... there for me." In the meantime, Bartolotta hopes to carry M.I.T. to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  render adults dreadfully boring to every child under the sun - a desire for ... interested in writing about what happened in my day (life was very boring for a ... feel very bad for this version of myself, who had somehow at such a young

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023