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• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of ... Being asthmatic, cold air is basically my worst enemy (cold air=dry air

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  hours, and I'm feeling a little guilty. See, it's the MIT biology ... interviewing at MIT this weekend. They were all really concerned about the ... river to Boston, which is about 1/4 mile away. And it's pretty tempting to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  you want; the membership is subsidized by MIT, and provides unlimited 45 ... surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... 'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  -DD-YY[/annotation] means that in America today is 9/10/19, which reversed reads the same, and is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date ... Palindrome Story: 2002 is a collaboratively-authored narrative palindrome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... mind, accruing interest. Time, however, ticks incessantly, and it is now ... try,' or 'to attempt', and is the root of the english word 'essay'; or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still ... views forever (looking at you, Music Building; also MIT Nano is very cool to peer into). But! I still have so many specific MIT memories I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  that she is "halfway done with MIT and I still do not know how to MIT ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... which MIT operates, I got over this fairly quickly. There really isn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Today is the 121st Boston Marathon, the oldest, and most famous ...  my friend Martin, and later MIT Police Officer Sean Collier. Regular readers of this blog may recall my post, last April, about MIT and the Marathon

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  , or #ragnasnow. Although that last one is mostly just me. MIT closed ... MIT ignores them in its curriculum. And IAP is a wonderful time to keep ... MIT's temporary emergency closure means I no longer have an excuse to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because ... -off-the-boat/plane/car freshmen. (During freshman orientation week, new MIT arrivals swim four laps

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  the popularity of the show, but the basic principle is the same. You ... the show is so popular, though, you enter your name in a lottery from 5 ... —and geeked out about Wicked all night. Here’s the soundtrack if anyone is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  application into your other applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can ... 've got some answers (updated for this year's very competitive EA pool). Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can't imagine being happy anywhere ... So, if you've been deferred, you may be asking, "What now?" Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  want to reread Marilee's recent post. [But MIT is my dream school, I can ... So, if you've been deferred, you may be asking, "What now?" Is it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]interpreter[/annotation] for a programming language called snek, which is a dialect of LISP. But

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  .1040,[/annotation]MIT is paying my rent, health insurance, and savings too. It’s a ... I officially graduated from MIT last year, but I’m still here, doing what we call “MEnging” (em-en-jing). The MIT[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... newsletter. It doesn’t really feel like it meant for me, though, somehow, it is. I’ve been getting MIT emails saying “please donate 👉🏿🥺👈🏿” which I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  one. :p Truth is, I have not been doing much this semester other than ... classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours ... aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a ... college is the big, spacious rooms where lectures take place. When I ... lecture videos one would see on [annotation note="MIT Open Course

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... , and is consistent with a set of key principles, including non ... a living person or group engaged in what we believe is extraordinary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017