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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity ... feeling of competence and belonging. This place is my jam. I'm writing from ... .320 (Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems) and 7.18 (Topics in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... of goals for this semester: Be less lazy. Yes, it's freezing cold ... a lot of work that was half done but due later that day. The buses

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... got into Reddit (bad idea at this time of semester), especially r

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in French House. Nous avons beaucoup de traditions. Towards the end of fall ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... hours of bliss in Photoshop, above. Shameless plug: I'll be selling prints ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  now the proud owner of a Brass Rat! The ring's design, which I covered previously, was carefully put together by these guys, the Class of 2014 Ring ... position right now to a lot of people: my past teachers, my professors, my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two ... of Effective Engineering Leaders.” Some examples from earlier this ... ELL, with most of the work happening in our weekly GEL 2 meetings on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians ... of a mix of undergrads, grad students, and other people, some of whom go to other colleges or are friends of MIT members. Most of them are

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... her musical days were over. Courtesy of the HASS-D requirement, she ... of writing a musical - but, in her words, "it was sort of a pipe dream

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  preparing an audition piece or go through the torture of auditioning. Luckily ... group which did auditions in groups of 8 with no solos. There were also ... back to Tech,” one of their classic nerdy MIT songs (the most

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is students who are thinking about joining the class of 2015, and/or those admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and ... 't bite). Your host tell you West Campus is full of jocks? I know firsthand

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline. So ... are taken out of the envelope, given an official MIT Office of ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries ... not as hot, no humidity, and a pleasant trickle of breeze (MIT is also ... , Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, iRobot, or any of those other "MIT summer job

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009