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• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  college. A secondhand Lenovo ThinkPad T420. 4.78 pounds, supposedly ... 's tech support desk who told me that they couldn't fix it and I was out of ... open it to, I don't even remember, buy some plane tickets or send an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  .012, and German II. I don't know if it's experience, but classes seemed more ... left for campus at 8:45am for German at 9am, and often didn't return ... along the Infinite or the tunnels, I've run into so many people I hadn't

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  time, asked if I really couldn’t hear them when they were yelling my name ... just spent my whole Sunday reading it from start to finish, and didn’t ... .046, Modern Chinese Fiction and Cinema. I didn’t really choose it so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  more work. 2. Explore future career paths I didn’t spend these first ... time to shadow because you aren’t as limited by classes or other ... ? Blarg. I am overwhelmed with choices. Official registration day isn’t

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the ... , you definitely don’t want to know. A few times, I sit on the floor and ... wasn’t why I felt good though. I turned in my exam paper and headed to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  . Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a ... classroom for my linear algebra exam. Also, it's snowing. ^ 6. and 8. Didn't ... got up, because I didn’t want my last action as a 19-year-old to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... thing. Totally worth it. So what now? You haven't heard much from me in ... . The email said something along the lines of "I don't know if I'm correct

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  - I still don't know who - cut me about a pound off the side. I took a ... , shoving it in my pocket, so I couldn't be identified while I was Food ... of me cooking the ribs, but I can't track it down. If you took a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... that I won't even dwell on except to say that personal finance WILL ... in business and life. Your first one doesn't have to be high tech with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  friggin' cold here right now? Where I come from, we don't have things like ... the current or former bloggers have lived in ILGs, they haven't really ... that for over 30 years.   pika What is pika, you may ask? Isn't

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  relation?" "Maybe they aren't years. Maybe it's an index? Maybe we ... ] "Alright, now we just apply the index . . . there." "It doesn't say anything ... could think of. That got me nowhere. Dan wasn't having any luck with the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  you that =p SOOO it's T -2.5 days for all you Early Applicants! If you ... the topic of this blog. So far this semester, I realized that I haven't ... requirements. If you haven't taken Physics C and scored 5's on both sections (or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I haven't blogged since JULY. I know, I'm a horrible person. Please don't tell me about it, because I already know, and I ... will be awarded. This doesn't leave much room for electives- there are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  nicknamed the "Brass Rat." It's not brass and it's not a rat, don't ask me ... a ring for 1000 people can't be easy, and no one is ever going to be ... . Also, below Building 10 is an ambigram. It's an awesome idea that didn't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  grades. This is understandable, since at the time I didn’t have a clue as ... volition to follow their dreams). It doesn’t take a straight A student to ... can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  a food coma [annotation note="my blueprint liveblog doesn't count; i ... came and went, we’re now in the middle of summer, and last night I couldn’t ... , so I definitely didn’t have enough time to write anything of substance

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  novelty check in a [annotation note="I won't say what the competition was, but it wasn't a game show"]competition.[/annotation] I had many hiking ... graduated online. I didn't watch, but my parents did. I started in the Aero

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  image or It's cool to care. Despite this, I think I still haven't done ... syllable. If there isn't a word that can tell them apart, are they different ... with air and the other doesn't. If there is a word that can tell them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jn1OeDlNpM[/embed] I really don't want to spoil anything about the ... open and happy about the "little kid shows" they watched and it wasn't ... of my middle school life. I can't really name the majority of the You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  enough though, I had to start thinking about internships, and I couldn’t ... usually enter by submitting a resume. I didn’t have a resume, and when I ... backburner. It wasn’t necessarily feeling like I couldn’t land an internship. A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017