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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  ." And it did work. And even today, more than 20 years later, it still does ... , how it operates, the innate and unspoken cultural references and use ... love that MacIIsi for its games. Shufflepuck Cafe, Oregon Trail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  long time D&D/MTG player in HS, it's been nice to get back into the ... have been good fun and as a long time PC gamer it's been a nice return to ... and greets, pub crawls and administrative meetings, it felt like I was a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  how they evaluate the student. I can’t cover all of it at once 'cuz it would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any ... Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  (Course 24)), how long he has had this UROP (about five months), which ... week-long program for Intel Science Talent Search finalists. As part of ... graphs. (At this point he broke it down into pieces that even I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... my friends at home and I heard some cursing in the lab, so it might be ... decided it was best to cook most of our time here. Despite the expense of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear with me, because it'll seem really appropriate once I explain it (Bonus ... I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , which is one of the reasons I like it so much :) [annotation note ... my first college quizbowl tournament!!! It was the aptly-named Early ... night. This was a lot of firsts for me: first time driving on a long trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  it, that you can't understand until they happen to you. And then there ... ' tv show record scratch* OK, so you're probably wondering how I got here ... , and just rereading it now stirs my heart: https://mitadmissions.org

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew's room and it was the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway ... ), just listening to the soundtrack or watching other people play it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to ... how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... the long, introspective part for a later entry, once I've had a chance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  storage, where it would be kept, and for how long. I didn't really trust ... undergraduates. Since it's so long, I've broken it up into sections: Monday ... 's safety, but it still hurt. It also showed me how much my college experience

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to concentrate; fail Google how to concentrate Wikihow how to concentrate Yahoo Answers how to concentrate Bing how to concentrate You are the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  as through UROPs or other initiatives. No matter how little or how long ... anyone using it will know exactly how it functions and how to fix it if it ... disseminate them. D-Lab trains its students to figure out how to assess the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  what to do when nobody is doing it with you. you feel LONGING as you ... focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you ... , regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  of what research is and how it works. I learned how to read scientific ... was wrong, though. Life is long, and it's already started! This is ... of grad school: how crazy is it that I can just keep studying, keep

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i felt like i understood its general feel. i learned how the soma ... it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... such blatant disregard and didn’t know how to respond to it, so i mumbled

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  how it grows and can't wait to see what Infinite does next! for more ... was taken aback to find out how well-coordinated as it was. It started ... creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here ... 've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its function at any point. That’s how chaotic it is. Major Evolution: Math & ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college ... ="alignright" width="170"] I still cannot believe it was 2019 when I got accepted. What

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023