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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely ... me dwell a bit on this. This led to me commuting home one day and making a short list of things I missed about MIT and things I’m happy to be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... . Every pset takes me ages to complete, anywhere from 8-12 hours a week

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... reservation i have against all arguments of this form i told all this to a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  hyperlocal radio personality Kayode D. '27 to curate [annotation note="leave a comment if you have any songs you want us to add to it!"]a playlist with ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Eilkouva8zPsNEVSvAiKf?si=pqiwHTceSvKfJzx7j_z23A To check your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here ... CPW events to give incoming students a taste of their unique brand of ... . Those who fell below a certain threshold would have to eat a sardine (a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... country song to sell over a million copies, Vernon Dalhart’s version of ... heading south along the East Coast, imploring to be rocked “like a south

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of ... occurrence. So if the input to this function is a text file that contains: “hi

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half ... a year."]limited to, [/annotation] 2 [annotation note

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I ... , better to be thorough. 12. A bathroom caddy. Depending on you live, you'll probably have to store your bathroom stuff in your room or in a little cubby

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

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... . ------------------ I want to talk about integrals. I’m pretty sure a lot of you nerds who ... run, and you were wearing a fancy Fitbit, so you were able to keep track

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like ... to make changes to be happy with your situation. I think it helps a lot

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... seemed to pay me any attention at all (this was a recurring theme of my ... was working on my thesis I put out a call for a UROP to help me collect

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During ... meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... some point during the meeting ended up following a tangent to the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  /funny/interesting/amusing/cool/awesome. Here are a few ideas to stir the imagination: What are ... No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice. As a ... be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  converting kiddie toys into a dragster to creating moving art for a museum and ... had the opportunity to work for him for a while, since we are both in ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bryan is alive and in Rome Day One In Rome

  

  hour and I have a lot of emails to respond to. (Thanks for all the emails - keep sending) But for now, I'll just leave you with a few photos. Monday ... We got here safely, and we're having a blast. I'll write a longer

  • by Bryan
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How the World Cup Will Conclude Backed by Science

  

  I like to think of myself as a fortune teller. And since predicting a tournament's outcome is basically telling a fortune, I've decided to tell ... , biased by virtue of my being a Ghanaian:     And yes, all

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 30, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  before heading to the living room. Kate's there too, writing something on a ... next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... to the living room to grab my laptop before going upstairs to take a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020