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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some ... "lycans," which is pronounced the same as "lichens," so that's what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  AI in this blog, and I feel that they reflect a lot of my own opinions ... ’t believe that black pepper is, like, a real thing (I just don’t think it adds ... complex feelings I have about this place. I feel that I can’t do them all

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... will be doing this IAP--January Scholars in France! I learned about JSF

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  thing I can think of is Taipei, after spending a month in Hong Kong, but ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... --skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  relationships. And a sense that I have not worked on anything deeply fulfilling in nine months. I’m not sure how to fix that. Chucking a writing class in ... bask in exhausted we-did-it glory the night of, when a thing is not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior ... . Literature is art; literacy is a basic skill. And even the stuff that isn't

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... dinner, which is a small place in Chinatown where they specialize in these ... settled on a place called Shojo. I heard that Shojo had really good ramen

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  IAP, maybe I'll finally do that) and whenever they take 2.008. 2.670 is ... wrath of the shop guys, or a drop in their grades. I can guarantee that ... that. =) But keep a mini mill in your dorm? Like in your room? I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In ... Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... . I am giving you a hall pass for this blog entry. This entry is for the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  'm forced to spend it in a way that I feel is meaningful. This includes ... because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I ... really is. I traveled - at the end of 2022, I flew in a full circle around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in ... , I only do that a few times a week). We're social, especially with ... night (she's a student at another university in Cambridge that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  new application is available, even if that's in the summer?" MyMIT will ... in the college choosing and I am thinking if we can set up sth like a ... noticed that an SAT II is still required for transfers, any Idea (I know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  more importantly in the fact that I had reached a point in my life where ... Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that ... that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Dakota Fanning screams. A lot. I'm with Ben in that I fully believe that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... basically one of the gods of stem cell research. The man is a pioneer in his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  little paint in my hair, but that's okay, I'll just match Levi from ... than Ruth and I were willing to put in at that moment. Vegetarianism tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... Courseware, a site that has materials for SO MANY MIT classes. i advise anyone ... as a result :p whoops. Regardless, I do love, love linear algebra: I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think ... somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one ... . Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I did really, really horribly. For some reason, I doubt that is the case

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  air and remembers that I'm actually enrolled as a full-time student at MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I ... lengths and formats). A Statement of Purpose (this is the experience I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  you. There is no way that a.) there are only 1500 talented kids in the ... commentary." "How is that possible? There must be something in there! I got ... . But what you might not see, is that there is also a lot of positivity

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013