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• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... deliberating on where exactly to place it on my laptop since it's such a weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... applied to four colleges that had some variation of a Neuropsychology major ... years, as you all play witness a little game called "Watch Keri find out

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  of said year) is it neccesary to take a fourth english course? It ... /supervisor. 2. Sometimes, it does make sense to lump similar activities into a ... 're applying early action? My research mentor is probably going to send in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  entirely sure what compelled me to make a Wikipedia account and add more to ... uncharitable to myself, maybe I would say it was ego—contributing to such a high ... want to amplify his presence within the narrative. A fact that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  more data i've gathered since then, so i still have a lot to do. after recitation, i walk over to hayden and seat myself at a couch next to the ... few hours to run an experiment. it's a simpler one: i'm testing out our

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting ... readings, and a reflection on the semester. Two classes down, two to go. Now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... a detailed overview of these projects). To give you some of the ... particular, she wants poverty to occupy a more prominent space in MIT’s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... ), after you choose to matriculate. The DVD is a compilation of student ... Paul would have a lot to say about this as well). But anywhoo, I want to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  know, people tend to ask the bloggers a lot if the admissions officers ... some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  our struggles too, like not being able to find a job and things they ... , there was a short game where each table tried to build the tallest house ... great place for them to find new people to work for them.) The real fun

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... ” neighborhood, closer to a grocery store, and with a greater density of coffee ... until I was eighteen. Then I moved around a lot, from southern Arizona to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... being in this major? It would really be a shame to major in something that ... I want to do, which has left me swaying quite a bit between staying in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... ), there was a class each term which had the curious tendency to absorb all ... ), I decided that I wanted to try a different approach: below the 48 unit

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  was going to start moving in next. A few months later, in a [annotation ... admissions office started experimenting with using Discord to create a space ... , my (vague) concept of MIT began to colorize. MIT was no longer just a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  MIT students learned about MIT. Where I was a friend to the incoming ... mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he ... to again are suddenly re-entering my life, and I don't know if it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... coming true. in fact, way back when, i made a wish at 11:11 to become a ... nice as well—I think I'm going to have a good time here. I'm really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... that rose up within me was enough to make me giddy for a whole day ... giving santa vibes but we love it!![/caption] A few weeks later, I went to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a ... public, are also invited to a celebration of the day hosted by the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  Every freshman’s first few weeks at MIT tend to follow a predictable ... (commonly referred to as the Stud)"]Stud 5,[/annotation] learning to share a ... started with designing a competitive “game,” then splitting into teams to

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008