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• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... bags of laundry behind you.) It's a good work-out. You emerge in a ... Saturday) in teams of four. It's a good deal: five evenings a week, I have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good ... Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the ... that kid right now, afraid of the unknown, know that there are a lot of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  , fraternity brothers will go out of their way to insure that interested freshmen ... When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT like this: "You can tell what we care about by the way we introduce

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... . The musical inspired because it was that good. MIT had a way better

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  few months.  On Living  Back in March of 2020, when all of campus was ... good friend. As people were running around trying to squeeze in all of ... knocking the MCAT out of the way, but doing well. So I listened to myself and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  opinion, a noble pursuit. Alas, [annotation note="cj: this is jacky's way of ... Nuova (The New Life).[/annotation] And in one of his hands it seemed that ... of my new culinary style: dry aging, [annotation note="cj: jacky likes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  have comMITted, focus the weekend on exploring each of the dorms.  Make ... with my new best friends exploring the Institute in any and every way ... better have a good idea of what each dorm is like so that you can rank them

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was repulsed by the smell of industrial fumes along the New Jersey Turnpike ... a museum of home. The first thing I notice is an MIT flag on the wall

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

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  also got to read a lot of really good articles from the New England ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito ... . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  clubs and this entire flavor of career. I’m still on the mailing lists ... about this when none of us were studying geology. The way I figure it, if ... websites and wanted to help out, and I was the only woman there out of twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of ... by walking past it a few weeks ago (it's a bit out of the way). They ... , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  Kendall. On the way, we talked about Waitress and other musicals and stuff ... middle of nowhere with no way to leave and only pies and baking to bring ... ) On the note of Dawn, her boyfriend (and later, husband), is actually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  The MIT School of Engineering is world renowned. Covering everything from ocean engineering to aeronautics, there's something exciting going on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... 's weird. --- there's such an interesting hodgepodge of books on my desk ... playlist and reminisced about some good songs on there.

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  way) that I chose this path, so it's a good conversation starter. It ... this time! You will arrive on campus ahead of the upperclassmen at the ... (s)/minor(s)/concentration, and, two, you can look at the average number of hours spent per week on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  . My first article on the implications of the new Internet domain names ... architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... decided on a production schedule, and Guild Camp began. In many ways, Guild ... scribble that down on a random piece of paper and pretend that it's an item

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  thing of great pride for a college, and they will entice good musicians ... [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for ... , each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way ... of your comfort zone, whether it is trying a new activity, or ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010