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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like ... already know most of the choreo. In addition to Chamak, I'm also co ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... information session was a stellar opportunity to "spend time with my friend in ... turned out to be MIT. I certainly have never regretted applying to MIT or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people ... , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  one freshman in the eye without freaking him or her out to begin a ... you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... us. Thus came the dilemma of “to cross or not to cross”. And

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish ... patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Storm, an M.I.T.-trained scientist who specializes in genetic research... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  obliging her request to post her charmingly Australian-narrated footage in ... , napped in the sunshine while flipping through a library book, awoke to the ... green beans large enough to feed twenty, and walked to Harvard Square in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  .036 introduction to machine learning. after being a lab assistant, or la, for four ... to find something in common with someone else, the person i talked to ... did not immediately know how to get to 35-225. in retrospect, i do know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... day off! Last year I went to the fair in between my morning and ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  involved in things that you love or interest you, because you need to be ... afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... addition to working in the admissions office and assisting with the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  answer to a multiplication problem or the cathartic resolution to a neck ... heartbreakingly crucial property of summer projects is that they tend to exist in ... human condition, or something.) 42. Start running up to 10 miles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park. Unfortunately, I was too busy participating in our epic snowball fight to worry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... redesigning the wrist joints that allow it to turn in place, and then we'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  to go to semesterly lotteries and enter your name in and only about 10 ... for 5 hours, whether that be on Zoom or in person, being thrown around ... . Living in Random Hall, known to be a small, quirky, counter-culture dorm on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby ... , rolls a D20 to decide if they should be SHOUTED IN ALL CAPS, and posts the ... added bonus. If you want to try your own exercise in computationally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... have taken advantage of it to an extent in freshman spring and sophomore ... individuals to us meeting people as twins was a lot higher than in the past. We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can ... to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do ... ". In hindsight, it's tempting to be black-and-white, and say that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021