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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow ... They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help ... questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... , effects louder than the cause. it's easy to confuse senioritis for laziness ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... revisions for my writing class to do Wednesday, and on Thursday I had to ... 's not like knowing this will matter to me for the rest of my life. But on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Airport customs for something like an hour (can someone please explain to me ... 've been traveling for 16 hours. I credit my consciousness to the hour ... Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  to write in for the blogs, since it comes most naturally to me. i ... i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... the blogs. Capitalizing the word 'I', being careful not to overextend

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... ) open comments was a kind of godsend for those who might want to get a ... (or maybe ever). But I have come to the conclusion that, for a variety

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  something small to contribute, even if we're only here for one short week ... , we've been working in small groups to devise projects that we could take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia' to Empower Problem Solvers" was among them! I owe that victory to you

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  So Sam and Mollie have both introduced you to their interesting ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  ...she has been an opera fangirl for many years now, and is excited to be ... museum box for people to gawk at. After the Stravinsky piece, Joshua Bell ... , we'd like to play one more piece for you," and everyone applauded until

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... unique schedule for an MIT student (I generally go to bed at 11pm and wake

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... was for those involved, but it definitely worked...to an extent. And ... considerably so that it was snowing for real. On the way back to the dorm an hour

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  it was in the waiting area for the dentist that I used to go to, I ... want to beat him.” So then I started playing and I played for months and ... was pretty fast for small numbers, but when you get to the higher and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  tangible ways. for now, i’m just going to take Scott’s advice and do ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... school to apply to early when’s Halloween? I’m too old for trick ... admissions interviews because it’s the truth. I genuinely want to go, for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment ... Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011