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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had ... it? "The integral of z squared dz From one to the cube root of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the ... fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... to do just that (some questions I have replied to directly and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each ... they will bring to any college they choose to attend. However, the more I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to ... edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... triplets of numbers where the first two numbers add to the third L = {w

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... unexpected diversity,  I was shocked to find we also have our own frequency ... --” “You forgot to ID.” “Alpha-Mike-0-Golf-Uniform-Sierra” (AMOGUS) “Pretty

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... thought that was funny, and kind of cool, and I wanted to share it with you ... is going online and we have a week to leave. It feels like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease never will I force myself to  live that way again. Or so I said.   ... begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months between me and the person I was when I stood there last and I had nothing to ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into ... . The morning before the email about us having to leave campus was ... theorist hats and started to rapidly oscillate between wanting to wait until

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to me recommending that I take this class! I’ve been waiting to take it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped ... group began to use the translator to address them. He had been coming to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  . i usually like to sculpt and edit neurotically, but i'm trying to see ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016