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• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  " dictate how cool you are. You gain aura points when you do something cool and socially confident, and you lose points when you do something cringe ... gets posted), starting last Friday. I forgot it was happening. When two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  "card view," inspired by new reddit, to the homepage blogroll so you can ... I hope you like what we've done with the place. Seven years ago, I welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... record and it records audio while you're writing, which means you can slow ... , so you can check his blog out for some videos showing the pen

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  -and-white answer in vain; that this is a question where you will only find answers by ... number of other ones, including a few where I was tasked with representing ... question was "what in the last week were you pleasantly exhausted by?" My

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  Occasionally, we bloggers get together and do cool things that are ... thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We also took MANY pictures. You have been warned ... on display. I definitely had a few moments where I briefly thought I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the ... mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my ... bodybuilding buddies at the gym next to where I lived, I found time to contribute

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  be saying about that. I can’t talk about what goes on exactly, but I ... really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... place... or the fact that you're almost expected to "spend" after a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... -arts college in New England, where admissions officials had promised to assign

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  this tech support complaint: "You can bet your crusty dusty error ... positive, red is negative). In the left-side Washlava plot, you can see ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... might help their products. You might be wondering how students get hired ... IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  where the Myers-Briggs test gets dangerous in its influence, and why I ... , then what can you use to self-evaluate, if anything? After a lot more ... learned through him that even there, where peer-reviewed research reigns

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  finally done it. I've reached a point where I can forgive them. When I think ... he hates me? What if I'm so different now that he can't stand me? And I ... time I was able to talk about it with him where I didn't feel angry or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  English House (you can even see the Union Jack on the side wall). Saturday ... their fellow mortals, only get to attend a fraction of the events they ... , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  a hardware engineering class (where you’d typically see a low ... algorithms are. It makes understanding them so much easier when you can ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  some equations you can get from it."]Schrödinger's wave function ... basically means perpendicular to r. Then you can describe velocity and ... In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... murals. of the existing dorms, there used to be four buildings where murals

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  they're currently running a promotion that gets you a $200 rebate on a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give ... ), so getting a $40 per month cell phone plan isn't as staggeringly costly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  hair was, where you came from, who your parents were, how athletic you ... First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  collaborative work of art where students can express themselves and share with the ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an ... started getting CP(*) planning emails from ASA, and the idea of Tunnel66 was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  episodes of Gross Science (you can even see me in the credits in a couple ... longer my cup of tea. Also we get to grow microorganisms in mud and water ... before. Art is taken seriously, and I can feel my observation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015