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• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  -booting shortly after buying the computer, so that just in case I messed up again I ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... -looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  better. I think one of the most important things I've learned in my time ... Last week, I spoke a little about Camp Kesem, one of the many student ... together a free summer camp for kids whose parents have cancer. As I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  nations. Each country would agree to buy at least 1,000,000 machines. Later ... I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my ... play tic-tac-toe. I entered it in a science fair and won a prize. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  . Um. The street? A sleeping bag in the lab? I would be happy sleeping on ... ...again, in theory. I had no idea what I would find when I got off the plane ... ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  confusion. I read in the itinerary that MIT would be bussing us from the ... CPW last year in your shoes. Well, I had never been to Boston before, so ... looking for. I was hoping someone would have an MIT shirt on or something

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  other outdoor festival. If you are in or around Seattle, I would recommend ... fall, I would recommend Head of the Charles if you are in or around ... You Wait Eggs, especially fried in (lots of) butter. Unfortunately, I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  . That would be some story) Anyway, I just want to say this: Thank you for ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... earlier draft I had made it "message in a mobile, yeah" but I decided that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying ... indulgent :) Just sauté some spinach (I use frozen) in a pan, add 2-3 eggs

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  . In many cases, it may even be something factual. This morning I ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list ... stockpile cases of Coca-Cola in 1985 for fear that her only son would be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls ... in the way and I feel like I'm interrupting an invisible flow that I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  . I'm sitting in my room facing the EC courtyard, tapping my feet ... couldn't carry more in my hands, because I hadn't thought to bring some ... student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  that i’m typing in pretty much exactly the way i would say things out ... i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... !!!"]assuming no fatigue or pausing to think[/annotation] i would end up with 3750

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... psetting. I am much more productive, attentive in class, and enjoy my morning

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  was released in May, but I was hosed, and now that I am hosed but in a ... for materials, and I want to know what it is like to buy nice yarn. And ... wanted to crochet organs and then affix them to humans. I thought it would

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I ... to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months now that, once I graduated, I'd move to New York and would have to find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023