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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  One seemingly minor, yet important, change I've noticed between college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually ... down at a conceptual level... I can do it if I switch from skate to skate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  in a week that I'm not really worried about getting a second ... , Japanese, and two programs in Chinese. I do know two people who have taken ... of it in a row. That means that you have to plan for a two-hour block

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and ... going to pick up a new hobby. I haven't started that goal, and I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered ... Phantom with the Reawakening at East Campus. If I had to sum it up in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... history (as opposed to, say, a technical evolution). One thing that I love ... in part because I wanted to study humanist/social concerns that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that ... glowing hour of 8 AM is immensely photogenic: Note that I couldn't have ... already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  that will differentiate you is how hard you work." I left feeling ... made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... 't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... in the things that you know are correct?" I asked. He nodded. "But you ... . It's a great example showing everything I'm talking about! 1. Begin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK ... , currently named Bump, is a hands-free baby gate that will detect whether the ... a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  those things that make MIT special and unique. So, I hope in the Q&A ... the lobby, I told people that the score was 6-0 (true) in favor of the ... time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  - Auroux for 18.02 in the fall is AWESOME! Do try to take that class unless ... do whatever is comfortable for you. --- Whew, that is a LOT of ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... ’s been really incredible being able to do and accomplish everything that I have. I like my work a lot. Coding in 6.005 has become really interesting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  getting a bid. That's right, I spent 2 weeks with this fraternity, doing ... Do Not Need To Live In A Fraternity To Feel Like You Belong. I live on ... I know that the instant I saved this entry as a draft and it showed

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... even then) was actually probably a good thing because I think that ... . I had a great experience here, but I'm also convinced that I could

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  school, that the stuff I dreamed of doing as a kid was stuff that I still wanted to do... with a little more science thrown in. I now get to study ... 's really not all that enginerdy. When I'm not in class, you can find me at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  . As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... that this will be a very tough year of MIT admissions. The quality of applicants is astonishing. Basically, selection works like this. We've spent a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a ... totally love that I started a web browser war in the comments thread of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  again. In summary, here is a concise blurb of what I have to say to you ... that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... my internal headspace, but when i’m in a conversation the other person

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022