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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  phone and carrier intended for incoming '09s and even for prospective students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... to start charging $17 per month for any non-MIT calls (I believe this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  ="109023" /] At dinner, our table name for trivia was “The Kids Table (+Hans ... resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  bike ride for me since I live at Next! 3. Long Wharf Although the ... weekly run for snacks at the Target by Fenway, I was riding my longboard ... most likely assigned reading for your classes that just add to the time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... classes (recitations, lectures, labs) you have every day. Then, for each ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  interns and volunteers at the Chinese-American Planning Council for the ... New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although ... interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... plus. We told her we'd be back on Wednesday for the WASH cluster meeting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  7. For those of you who don't know, Lobby 7 is the main lobby at MIT ... (Campus Preview Weekend) at MIT. While at CPW I figured out which dorm I ... something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  scientists for the module. Back at East Campus, between French 1 homework and ... not do the same for its research? He saw it as an educational ... aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... I came up with bucket list items for my first metal fest: crowdsurf get a tattoo (apparently at the metal fests in Scotland, which are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything ... person I got into a relationship with at MIT is now my boyfriend :) We ... at a fencing practice last year: “This is MUCH less sexual if you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  exist for years to come, so that my life at this institute will always be ... Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... branch out more socially, and probably I could study harder for my job

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... managed to nab an internship at Microsoft as a New Technologist, where my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  (at least through dimensional analysis) best bound we can hope for, we ... for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And perhaps some thoughts about life at MIT too. If you're not as interested in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  time for documents is 1-2 weeks at this time of year. As long as you ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... often have at this stage; please read through the FAQ to check if your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  museum for lunch and sat down at a small restaurant. There was one guy. He ... ="101198" image3="101202" image4="101209" image5="101247" /] For dinner at Pompeii ... on metal and mortars at Pompeii, set Tetazoo loose upon society

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  our teacher to host at our high school for the first time. I bought a ... inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  eyelash. He was quiet for a couple of minutes, stared off at the wall, then ... action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for a few hours, I finally hit "send", and away went my request for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states ... to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... laptop. Two families with small kids order at the register. Every few

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023