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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... ? The Infinite is no different! I'm sure there are things that I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  recieve a reply, is that because I sent it in so quickly?" Harlan '10, I am ... is that I could not find your email address ANYWHERE? is this a ... 's definition for a transfer student." Leo, it is not true that rejected MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . Maybe I need more people to talk to. In any case, that video is now ... Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here ... internship, and I must say it's been quite an adventure. I've settled into a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  about whether or not that part about what you do in your free time was a ... ? sunday? cuddling afterwards? why do i talk? Well, if you want us all that ... Children of Eden rehearsal, which is a miracle because I am notoriously bad

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of ... in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... school), I was inspired to instead join a university community that had all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  the things that I most enjoy about my work in the admissions office is ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a ... direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

   usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 hours in Kendall Square. "Don't you still have that gift certificate for

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to ... wondering why, as a computer science student doing work in a computer science ... talk session was actually the first one I attended. It was a symposium on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging has been so sporadic lately. That, and the Sex and the City kick I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  morning, the first thing I do right after I wake up is solve a Rubik’s cube ... same place in the end?  These questions remind me that I have a choice ... can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... just like 6.2050, there’s a big final project that I’m excited about ... 965 is in Python. Although Python may seem like a blasphemous choice for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  It's Q&A time! Ajit asked: "who is the person in the 5th picture ... get crowded first.) In terms of gender mixing, there is a very large ... weather is still nice) during naptime. =) I have two friends who live in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  clutch. The general idea is to invest in a pair of boots that are warm ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... that do us good. It traps in and uses dead air as an insulator, keeping

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  happened that year, and I do that best through writing. Is there a way to ... student body, this post is one that I believe may be useful for high ... some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on ... give a talk that i unfortunately missed because i was stuck in lab. I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... algebra class to confirm that I’d made the right decision in leaving Wall ... treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  receive. You do that when your closest friends are in a bad place, when they ... ’t inherent, in that, it was due to things everyone else can pretty easily do, too. I just happen to like doing them a lot. When it comes to simply

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening ... being unable to focus in my 2 pm and 3 pm classes, i knew that i was going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that ... know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... . i wanted to say that one year isn't that long in the span of things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  time in literally my entire life, I felt athletic. I know that’s such a ... ="and my friends and family"]myself[/annotation] that I was going to run a ... . And that’s no shade to him at all! He told me that I say I’m going to do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025