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• Blog / Classes

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

  

  Teaching Labs where you get to teach in other countries to summer internships ... get up earlier in the morning or skip a class or two to have the time to ... sounds like a class you were supposed to take in high school, but, in fact

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  anything else) Also (I hope I get to ask 2 questions in one comment), I had ... , "I'm going to take the ACT without writing in September to get college ... that you've asked in the comments... Thanks, in part, to the transition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... in order to build a strong application to MIT, and most students are

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... Rosenberg, had gone to MIT. I went in to talk with him and told him and he ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... out in order to follow new friends around. I felt, in addition, that we ... we were not really getting to know each other. I spent my freshman

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... more spice to it. So, back in sophomore year, I thought it would be cool

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  ="Intro to Computer Science and Programming in Python. Runs for one quarter"]6 ... in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... Library. While I was walking through the Harvard campus to get there, I saw

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... values to prioritize—certainly that is better than wandering in the dark

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  dead you can get. But wait! What's that? IT'S IN ALL CAPS SO THEREFORE ... in New Hampshire, which is to say we went paintballing at OSG. Among ... after being hit in embarrassing ways.According to Chris, it's done wonders

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... sometimes forget to wear pants in the hallway. (But then again, who doesn ... -course-meal by myself, and so in a throwback to that first original dinner party

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... . After we toured, we were put in random order from 1-136 and allowed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... to finding MIT people =) "It might be noteworthy that 10 people in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  Today: "10 great places to bite into a big burrito" - Anna's Tacqueria, in ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  get a meal here at one of many eateries in either the surrounding area ... One of the great things about living in Boston is the close promixity to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to ... minutes out of your busy days to say “hi” and get to know people you see in ... to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... around in small circles, muttering to myself, twirling my fingers in the ... time in MIT I had completed an exam with several minutes to spare. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words ... time I tried to build something (an ill-fated arch of cardboard boxes in ... their countries, he ran off to get supplies for more demos. He took over

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011