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• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  yet, here I am. My roommate is asleep. The lights are turned off.  I ... analyzed. My laptop is at 2%. My phone is at 1%. Pretty sure my internal battery is at 0

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just ... ' foodstuffs. This composition assignment is less-than-cool. 10:37 -- Random ... relation, or at least only very marginal, to 10.302. Here is the finished

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  Using Glass Pumpkins MIT is famous for its so-called “great glass pumpkin ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... “vanilla” and “orange”! But alas, glass frit is nothing more than eye candy

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... appreciated. Then Kevin suggested that we go to Killian Court—which is an eight

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  you're at MIT. And so, with that, I say goodbye. It is approaching bed ... On March 1st, this was posted on the MIT '12 Facebook discussion ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... (nothing) Good morning! The inevitable has occurred; our train is now running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  's Day. New Years is in my[annotation note="only beaten by Chinese New ... start next month during[annotation note="Independent Activities Period is ... is relatively new and not super defined right now. So, instead of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... your MIT dining experience is by experimenting with exotic food ... -10 different vegetables (which is admittedly already a lot), but you can double

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  and every 100 iterations it does that which is very ??? i think i might ... sequences I've put in are way too similar, and essentially, the tree search is ... .1220/6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms): This is a notoriously difficult class

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  When I was applying to MIT, I thought that was the single application ... is a true gem in its entirety, but the three main points that Petey outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... , you know, starting at MIT). But time just keeps going, and I’ve more or ... the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... or not, is not your entire existence at MIT), psets tend to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... , the reason APs help your application, as far as I can tell, is because ... applications ask for your unweighted GPA, so the fact that your GPA is 26.2 on a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  . and no matter how much people try to reassure me that being at mit is ... (taps mic) is this thing working? hello? okay, great. that's cool ... days than i was before. which is a good thing! i'm writing this directly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  anything else, is kind of a big deal to me this is just to say, i'm gonna ... -to-be-abandoned building because a place is never really about the place, it's about the ... i'll be one of the last to leave i guess this is also the conclusion

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  experience, and gush about how much better MIT is than high school. I hope you ... someone read aloud: My name is Cami. I'm a lil bi filipina girl from LA ... important of all, MIT. I now proudly call Random Hall, specifically Loop, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  .100A has been very helpful (I can actually do psets), and 9.00 is ... much better for it! I'm at MIT! I make video games for money! My community is amazing (stay tuned for a post about that in the next few weeks

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  ' curriculum developing at MIT (cf. TL Taylor's Networked Cultures, or Abelson ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... the technical shapes them. The internet, in particular, is an artifact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class ... lottery in for tickets. The website is here, in case you're curious and want

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012