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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  host to a wide variety of versions of campus life -- from the typical ... ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  buying, noticing a new unread text from MIT’s alert system. Friday ... from being outside in the open, just three roommates a few feet apart in ... , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  from Montreal on a three-day weekend trip (wheeee!) :) And this is where ... thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... , 2008 Right after school ended, I hopped on a plane and embarked again on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  future, or people who time-travelled from a year before 2024: "Aura points ... her a few days ago. I didn't get aura points docked from sending the ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  in. A lot of the research that is being done is years from becoming practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... from a longtime reporter. He'd recently retired after 40 years at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  - with a suggestion from my friend "Alioth." Remember, remember the Fifth ... Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up ... foiled at the twelfth hour, the conspirators nonetheless secured a place in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  bloggers an email about a $10,000 scholarship for any bloggers who attend ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I'm a finalist. A lot of the time I'm not very serious - but I'm serious

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  blogging team! Elizabeth Choe, '13, is a Course 20 major from Missouri who ... , '12, is a Course 1 major from Colorado who lives offcampus in an ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  still eat at a dining hall: they accept cash and TechCash. From what I ... availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  television as a whole. I was on the flight back from Boston, after college ... forgotten just how good it was. It had a completely different pace from shows ... sponsorship from Coca-Cola, a TV special began development. Due to the small

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Igor Belakovskiy ’02. Hi! I’m a rising senior studying Mechanical ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  . While Raphael, Queen Victoria III and Jennifer hid from the heat inside a ... 's having attention issues, because a coworker from across the hall just ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  figured there were… maybe 64 independent directions (a factor of 8 from each ... from my laptop. Looking up, I saw that Fatema had replied with a link to ... ’s pretty remarkable how this relatively small difference arose from such a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  go to Shaw’s, the grocery store a block from Random, and then I eat ... from a few years ago, whom I haven’t yet seen since then but am really ... again and read some more from the textbook. Cory brings me tea a few times

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  orange books that tell you everything from how to do a 360 with your car to how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction ... Charles every year; it's a pretty big festival, from what I saw.) You

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  it locally from a file on my computer. Or, more often, what I do is ... . [caption id="attachment_38867" align="aligncenter" width="300"] a plot from ... is going on. For example, when I've visualized the data from a game, I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of ... terms of the financial aid package from a given institution. Not knowing ... . Eligibility for FWS is based on need. Money earned from a FWS job is not counted

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  and limits from a topological perspective. Open sets have the property ... explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my ... from seventh grade, I’d probably have a much easier time than I’m having ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022