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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... outside of an intimidatingly professional LLP office. Sometimes I wonder

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  went down to the Museum of Science, over to Boston, all down the shore of ... This entry is going to be a completely random collection of things because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  prepared me very well, especially in math and science. "One of my teachers ... Guillen taking advantage of chance to attend MIT, play football By ... lies ahead for St. Joseph Academy senior Daniel Guillen is one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply ... and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure how I felt. It was this strange mixture of disbelief and excitement. My

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start ... beauty of it. You take notes just like you do with a normal pen and paper

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy ... ="aligncenter" width="535"] bombers class of '20 yearbook photo[/caption] When I tell

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  sister of my friend Martín. (Their family used to live in Madrid when they were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... was in most of my classes in high school (Spanish included), and even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... 's boring, because you've already solved both mysteries and are tired of ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... started blogging junior fall because I wanted to write, and I chose to apply

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... field, because STEM is what consumed most of our classes and time and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  4.113 - Applied Architecture Design Studio I, we have to code...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  applying so I hope you guys don't. D-day is a day of extremes, lots of people ... 't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth-crippling refreshes of https://decisions.mit.edu/verify.php. If this sounds like you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... clear that this is a tech school. Outside of classes, people are making ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  .[/caption] I made my poster resemble the Department of Materials Science and ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023