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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... Raisin Bran, read the syllabus for "Zumba" (my new PE class) and choked on ... pulled on a pair of sweatpants (to protect my legs against the sub

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  of sororities on everything I'd seen and heard of those in other ... 'm of the opinion that the way to dispel stereotypes about MIT ... I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the ... My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  think of myself as a pretty good communicator. Imagine my surprise when ... visual ways to get across the energy and fun of doing science gave me yet a ... to think that a bit of her carries on between those covers. You

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  were so reminiscent of lab and design questions on my engineering PSETs ... -JLab-related.  In addition to being absurdly good at teaching, the people on the ... defined success based on whether I felt satisfied with my results instead of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  think its a good way to start, but there's no substitute for just going ... inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... were lots of dumb people getting in the way, so I didn't really get any ... if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  parents helped keep me on task while filling out applications, took care of ... to find some way, perhaps long in advance, of talking about ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... stops along the way to see waterfalls and to catch our first glimpse of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  the ways we plan to do more. We aren’t aligned on every particular but ... I work on, and I love my grit, my capacity to suffer, the feeling of ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... condensation inside the cube based on the heat in the room. So, in a way, the ... has to do with the ways in which forces of nature are systems. The

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... Minneapolis are deeply disturbing in themselves. And of course, they come on the heels of highly charged incidents, from Georgia to New York, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... to do in Cali. In other words, I had to find a job.... On the eve of x ... student holiday on Friday so people can focus on finding employment. It

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  a surprisingly relevant fashion. ELL: Make a decision on what type of ... make the news section of that newspaper you pick up on campus look pretty ... : Find a way that optimizes this situation for amount of time available

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  in the Infinite. 2. On a campus full of night owls, geniuses, and grad ... morning, there's a comfortable cadre of compatriots on Amherst Alley or the ... depends on how much you work -- you get one unit of credit for each hour you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  's a lot of emphasis on being prepared for the MCAS exam, and that ... successful outcome of the education system, and my thoughts on education are ... [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of ... all of you (@ me) trying to simultaneously respond to emails, scroll on ... !” By the end of the session, people are slithering on the ground like a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... could have predicted this when I stepped on campus three years ago. Way ... , I realized that not only had I started to pick up on some of the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  , highlighter, or anything else. A good deal of the surface area here is made of ... behind for the new prospectives, the incoming Class of 2016, and everyone ... After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012