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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional ... building.) It's quite common for freshmen to receive single rooms (i.e., no ... of a frat boy, but I may go to a few events for the free food

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be prepared for an amazing time, complete with the prospect of little to no ... about life, go for it. 2. Make sure to check out all the dorms - Every

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... the MyMIT website, so be sure to check that out when it gets posted

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  's easy for you to learn about neat stuff through the grapevine. If you ... month to sing science fiction and fantasy folk music, called "filk" for ... hobby for me, and I assumed I was the only person who would be interested

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... 's frustrating to struggle for hours on a pset problem. But on the other hand ... rewarding to get a problem after thinking about it for so long. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  four weeks feeds: one person for one semester directions Step 1: Pour nine classes into online registration, making sure to keep an even mix ... for this semester: 12 units of 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person ... i'm not necessarily going to dinner for the food today: i just know ... outside of hall). this is normal, and usually leads to game stagnation for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  to blog about. Pi or tau? Pi. (If it's okay with the other person(s ... speed walk from East Campus to the Z-Center for practice. Tell us about ... cute not to post on here. I'm UROPing in the Personal Robots group at the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  normal person seeing this movie for the second time, I obsessively combed ... thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... borrowed van. Jess Lin was the ideal last-minute person to bring along

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to Economy Hardware tomorrow morning. ME: Oh, can I come? I need to buy blinds ... : (thinking) Seriously? ME: (thinking) Seriously. (thanks to Allin for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  I personally find the former to have a better user interface (for my ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... remained at home for two more weeks, not returning to Cambridge until this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... 't say for sure, but this aspect of my personality was probably one of the ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  , and listened to the performers while waiting for the tree lighting at 8 ... ", which to my chagrin was a glorified excuse for MIT to give everyone a ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve ... lasts for a week. What happens after that? Well, once an entry leaves the main page, you can find it two places: the personal archive of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... 't think it would be helpful for me to describe them; these are the baseline ... to note that I won't review every single flavor combination - for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... to offload their junk for a fee. I checked my Reuse-Sell folder, and ... desktops, and that a limited number would be available for resale to staff

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  dining understanding (that's a story for a later entry, or for Laura to ... , walking to another dorm for food is an inconvenience, especially since dorms ... to budget money just for food for you. It's also very easy for parents

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  can buy from Bed Bath & Beyond or something) to make it easier to ... packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them ... to MIT for an education? It helps to bring notebook paper, binders

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by the gallon. In fact, it's hard to buy it in anything smaller than a ... trouble. Spanish sense of humor is very cheesy, I'm sorry to report. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008