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• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  Fritos in our trash can that someone grabbed at LaVerde's on the way back ... that even after our good days, all we want to do is eat dinner at 5:30 on ... of the few orderly things in our room... ... Good thing we're living

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ="Fluid Physics"]8.292[/annotation], all of which I was planning on taking anyway ... of the weather/climate forecasting field I want to focus on more at the moment. 18C would represent a shift to focusing on the underlying math of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  with me, and the new freshman bloggers. I'm also on the Associate ... collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a ... continued on our way. I mention all this because we met him again later - stay ... sandwiches (we were unbearably hungry) and stumbled the rest of the way home

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  investment of $20,000 per new startup. DRF has invested in over 100 student ... Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in ... MIT.   Most of these companies are new to me, but I have heard of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... worked out that way. There are just so many projects that I had to put on

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  'll die on that hill if I'm not already dead from one of the trials ... I wanted to go to grad school. The mask was just my way of ... is good. It deserves fuel. It does not deserve the extremes of poor

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  assembled and ready to take on one of the most notoriously demanding classes ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It ... based off of my conclusions, then wrote a final research paper on the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  instead of people. In any case, pursuing hands-on experiences in college ... "we need a way to connect pieces of metal" and the solution they came up ... , there was a lot of melted plastic on my motor by the time I'd finished

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  good because lots of beanbags are there specifically for sleep. most ... a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The project will involve a lot of ... Jake told me it had been on one of the 5.111 lecture slides and i had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  - “Exceptionally good performance…” B - “Good performance…” C - “Adequate performance ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks

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

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot of things, but don’t follow through. I reflected on myself and ... out on. I was skipping all of the hard work. Yes, it sucks. And it ... ’m cheating myself out of the experience of learning! I need to grow on my own

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... computer, not on the runway...), equations, whoa science is actually kind of ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  second degree on time. A pretty good understanding of E&M and cellular ... advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... more than most people take here. Especially on top of being the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  provide some snapshots of MIT: 3/26/07: MIT models interdisciplinary supply chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will ... After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... hole); CSAIL presentations on developing new microprocessors and robots ... schedule of events was 87 pages long! The aesthetics of MIT do grow on you

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  rave (it was really loud). On the last day of Orientation, all of the first-year class went to the aquarium. On our way back, past midnight, we ... years of adventures on the T! After all, it’s not about the destination

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  the Hastings Motorsports Park on July 6th. During this section of the ... the way. Nothing says Solar Car like the fire of deadlines. PC Ashisha ... our vehicle to the public and talk to other teams. We made good use of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018