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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  in addition to MIT's language classes to reach a point where I could ... yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really ... -up to help make learning foreign languages easier in foreign

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends ... lived in one room. There isn’t a typical Randomite and there isn’t a ... things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  things im doing during break things im looking forward to doing

  

  things I did while in California: Went to a ton of doctors appointments ... , so we got to visit his apartment and wander around a plant nursery in ... uses her guest passes on us :) Did some bike rides I used to do back in

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth ... it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in ... reason. David, my freshman year roommate, was a Mexican who went to school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in ... invented at MIT by Gerry Sussman and Guy Steele, was first described in a ... Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct ... able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... mom used to say that I’m directionless; not in life, but by foot. I ... place you’re trying to walk to. So as a kid without a GPS in her pocket, I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  of such a fine point. I also stopped using pencil in college--most of ... indispensable!!!!!), a zipcard (I’ve used this to drive to pick up food for events ... to me by Dora, with the sunscreen~), a coupon for Darwin’s (a cafe in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  -night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a ... a Grand Theft Auto-inspired game set in, well, any setting on Earth ... flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to cast the situation in the linguistic frame of an 8 year-old, the auto ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group ... there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since ... to apply to Burchards if you have a strong interest in the humanities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  happy that she came up with a way to make the wheel spin which we used in ... at my mom,  sitting across from me in a coffee shop that caters to ... .001. Most people seem to see it as a class that is useful, interesting at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  GDp?si=026e893c1793453a To check your Early Action decision on Saturday ... password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In ... a button that says "View Update." Make sure that you are ready to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  form, and they have to verify who you are. Preferably in a waterproof ... heart, and it made a lot more sense for me to fly in when I was a freshman ... in your dorm, it's a lot easier to store it nearby over the summer for

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  ), many students will be in a frenzy trying to find summer internships, and ... the initiative to make a change in the community. The MIT Public ... -identity in leadership roles. It’s a great way to mentor and impact students in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... , residents are required to pay $300 per semester for a 50% discount in any of ... through a wooden door, which is why I chose to live in one of the non

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  precise distance measurements. LIGO used a similar technique to detect ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  parts! Me: *clicks in* AHHH. Zach: *reads* The key to making a concise ... * Physics Instructor (in an email): Due to a confusion of dates on the course ... House, had a holiday dinner on Saturday night! (We're supposed to have a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a ... in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  mine: Shows I Used to Watch, but Am No Longer Watching (in no particular ... this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a ... countdowns. 4. I've been meaning to write a post like this since the big TV

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008