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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long ... ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured ... spring semester learning more Python and more LaTeX showing off my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... Burton Conner - rip Senior House) to paint murals on the dormitory walls ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... as we all focus on this murder, there is another happening, and another ... black lives, because it just made sense to me. I thought rational thinking

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  least a personality). Explore. Laugh. Live. Find friends to last a ... precisely a year ago, when I was but a newly arrived freshman on MIT's campus ... three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  As part of the 2011 Early Action Telethon, today I had the ... . That’s right, if you don’t ask me questions on my blog, I will call your ... ’re just trying to help! I am really glad to have been able to answer some of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  Disclaimer: I don't actually live in Baker, but way back in 2003, I was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after ... upperclassmen who didn't mind helping me with a question on a pset Bryan: i

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free ... - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  't live in a vacuum, and it's stressful to waste energy and time on ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... more or less told the solution, wondering how on earth anyone could ever

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... - faced with decisions like where to live and to work. I didn’t have values ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  focused on video games (which was right up my alley). We explored topics ... , how games help players explore their own identities, what kind of ... -wise. I was on PNR, but that only really helps calm my worries when I'm not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  ominous - “Important news for the Senior House community” - which then was ... life on this earth, which I think serves to illustrate that this has ... your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  make sure we were okay. We were stunned on two levels, first by the news ... , on the news, we saw the sight, charred buildings standing like sinister ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  last summer, and I'm excited about catching up on House and Monk episodes ... watch TV during term. But House is on during cheerleading practice, so I ... and I go out on Friday nights, so I don't get to see Monk. But during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  on your phone. It was nice—and it honestly helped dispel a few worries ... someone who graduated in '88 and lived on my floor (5E/Florey). There's a ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... on my UROP, which involves computing statistics about traffic in a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  reading the profile of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  help, too. Our hearts are broken by everything that’s been going on ... ’s understandable that there’s a lot on your mind right now, and the last thing we ... following: Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, your community

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  hypothesis for why landing on your heel helps is that, when you step with your ... faster that many people use on campus, such as bikes, scooters, and running ... emphasize finger / toe structures so that they can land on the ground and take

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons ... my low-key fangirling), Jess, me living my best life, and King of the ... but instead it fell right next to my feet, I live a charmed life. 4

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  Earlier today, I got an email from Kenny Friedman '17, who took my ... appearances of Professor Chomsky, Kenny, with the help of the MIT Museum ... (unbelievably) still used on fall travel recruitment well into the aughts. There

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017