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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  included the ban on freshmen, and the removal of two of our GRTs to make way ... many people can say they’re on a first name basis with some of MIT’s most ... them all weekend in favor of rush burgers. I sat next to my parents on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  appropriate/relevant for you): 2) Click around on the new major's website ... biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption ... prove your worth. Or, in other words, it's MIT's way of ensuring that you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  way across the main courtyard in front of Kresge Auditorium, being ... than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. For more information on ... of the MIT Map on the inside of the ring. The biggest addition to the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  I hadn't been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half ... own work. I know a lot of people who feel this way, but I don't think I ... laundry on Thursday, my clothes were already packed. It was in the middle of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... top and- man, that felt good. The small part of my soul that hadn't lost ... there. We passed one of those machines that tell you your speed on the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US ... would pick me up on the other side. Of course, I'm a worrier, and I got ... dissociated. Was I really bringing boxes full of stuff across Niagara Falls on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  asked, "Now that the Interview Information is posted on the MyMit website ... Massachusetts law. Some living groups, of course, have their own ways of welcoming ... Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of ... the bat, I'll get it out of the way that Next House is far from the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  ="92670" /] We stopped on the side of a very steep hill, opposite a lake. It was ... mark of how focused I was on crossing the border that I did not stop to ... everyone on. Most of them did run the last several hundred meters. [caption

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  available right then and I could literally start reading it on the way home ... bread magic. Of course, she's pulled into some issues that are way above ... reflected the complexities of life. You can put a lot of labels on the issues

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  with New England geese. Street-side pakoras with bowls of easy ... Bollywood-radio channel on my way to class. Even though I was born and raised ... such a way that we were closely tied to our heritage. Now that I live on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  undergrad for good. I hope I'll be able to stay on top of all of them, but ... a way to keep each other accountable for actually achieving some of ... achievable goal, even if it isn't that lofty, is a good way to keep progressing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  +Planning, and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. (Here are some statistics on ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school ... requires, after six core subjects, a choice of one of five concentrations

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  looking over to the side and seeing what's going on elsewhere. Oh, good ... them—as of yet, despite having a few ideas (and despite having been on ... discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  ? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of ... on fire on the way there and I got in a car with a stranger just so I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  funding. If we did a good job on the first parts of the grants, that initial ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... Dynamics, purveyor of viral videos, or the MIT Cheetah, relies very little on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  (towards the end of the camp, the counselors try to do 30 distinct proofs on ... from the head coach on the third day of training - "Do you think you are ... those shorts of yours will make you go fast in the water?") The truth is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... required to put more focus on the academic preparation of the applicants ... the mildest of interest. If they are good grades, terrific. If they are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  ! MITES Summer 2004: Students coming out of dinner at Vinny T’s on Boylston ... community within the New House Dorm. One of the best things about La Casa is ... students. One of my roommates is a good friend from Spanish House, so it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  Prudential Center on my way back on the Boston University Bridge. Sunrises over ... the hypercompetitive environment of gunning for grades and a good ... watershed moments of your life where you look back on, and say, "Well, if I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025