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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... other people are freezing I'm basking in the comparative mildness of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  run that I spent the rest of the evening setting up a computer in the ... -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

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  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 ... Kay, known as the inventor (!) of laptops (back in the late 1960s) and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  So…I'm not sure exactly where September went, but in plain English: school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  list of meetings can be found here. And with that, I'm off to West Palm ... , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... of Educational Counselors (ECs) in attendance: 8 Number of questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  me and I use it all the time in place of my debit card, then just pay ... normally do, I'm establishing credit, I'm still not in debt, and I get 5% of ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a ... just minutes of exposure. If I'm honest, though, I can barely remember ... felt like a part of me was soaring. I am glad memory can work like this

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I ... access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="attachment_57638" align="alignnone" width="660"] done in high school - i can ... free iPad and Apple Pencil in late August, as part of a new loaner ... , like I’m 14 and can’t pay attention in geometry. I’m taking CMS.307

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  of binder paper. In those classes, I generally just put my computer on my lap. In most of the main classrooms (i.e. 10-250 and 54-100), the ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  out with no expectation of winning, so you can imagine my shock when I ... York City in April for the photo shoot, I had no idea who the other girls ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... had to admit that, yes, this was now the coolest thing I know of that ... City of Boston and MIT, because, seriously, look at these freaking things

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  , continuing the storied evolution of Gifford City and its railroad, the "Tech Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... of freight and passenger services nationwide. Written in Python, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  hub of Maine's South Coast region. I was in Maine for three days, so I ... didn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things, because I was ... 's business, financial and retail capital and the largest city in the state," as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set ... - Accomplished! I bought a crap ton of new clothes and accessories in 2020. I ... - Accomplished...kinda? Instead of buying expensive clothing items, I made a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... campus, and there's no way I could have met all of them in just one living

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past ... , though, I know how hard it can be to clean up and take care of yourself ... categories of what I was putting in each box was a lifesaver. It helped me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  , and Ulysses in the Building 4 Athena Cluster. I rushed out of the ... moral of this story is, though I suppose it can be any one of the ... can do great things for each other. Any others that I'm missing? In any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... make sense of all of this in just one short week. This is what I ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010