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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to ... "Apple fanboy." Neither does my dad, who is about as far as you can get ... patterns. To the extent that this is true - and to the extent that Apple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at ... six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... attempt to pick these fragments out of the haze for you—because each of them ... blogging, i:   went to see [annotation note= "pop band famous for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back ... seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don ... like in Calc AB. In high school, I always used to bug my math teacher

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess ... away all the trash we wanted to keep). But entering college as adults^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to ... from me. So anyway, there’s my first compelling reason to come to MIT

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in New York, some guys decided to beat each other up in the main concourse

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  Scrawlings We'll see how many of those I get to, but they'd all make good ... somebody to take over his job and while nobody permanent has been decided upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square ... Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  is greeted with generous aid packages. It was also nice to get to ... !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  I inexplicably neglected to get a picture of, featured a real mosaic ... bear. We're right in between the United Kingdom bear, who appears to be ... , who was once asked to "say something in Georgian" while teaching SAT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  get back to learning more trivia. so oops. sorry if like, you actually ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  metal. My goals for future projects are to get my hands on group ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  while talking to themselves. it’s difficult to get a meaningful measure of ... classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . One morning, we tried to get into the library of the Sorbonne, but were ... (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018