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• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree: everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  (for instance, at one point when Siegfried is rowing a boat, the center ... give to her. It sounded fairly interesting at the time though (I paid ... reenergized my desire to experience Wagner. Prospects for me not only managing

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody ... , particularly at the only college about which I know anything substantial. The ... learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes, okay, it's true that you can just show up on the first day for any class ... , they'll probably find room for you. But my universe tends toward disorder

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  out our advising assignments. There are three advising options at MIT ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... .716" is way too much for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  working really hard for an MIT degree. MIT kids are really good at delayed ... a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... . So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  easier said than done. I woke up (well, my mom woke me up) at around 7am, for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... a cockpit. All the passengers turned to stare at each other - I had

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

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  only been at MIT for a week. While I had a significant learning curve ... experience at MIT, I'd truly have to say that it was really life changing for ... decided to read it and see if my personal predictions and goals for my

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  can do at MIT, either. 4. Alice gets a gold star for making me a sleep ... cheerleading and how has it helped/hurt your grades, etc? [I'm uh, asking for a ... extracurricular activity when you first come to MIT, at least until you figure out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  exams as well. Check out The First Year At MIT for details. There are ... get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools ... ago so that undergrads like me can use these tools for this exact

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  : Introductory math classes at MIT don't always work for me. I had a wonderful ... semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... -off for the summer months. I just got back from Alaska. More on that (with ... apply. As per usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  was amazed at how helpful this tactic was for raising my GPA. Learn from ... Mmm, it's a hot one today (93oF, or 38.9oC for those of you who use a logical degree system)! Days like this make me glad for two things: 1) my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  !!), is also my most recent sketchbook because I've hardly drawn for myself since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... ! “Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  upon and then see I didn't post for months or read at all etc. etc. But ... sophomore year is the worst, but it's also kinda the year class-wise, at least for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  deadline came and went. For those that submitted EA applications, good job ... -ish. :) Before the weather turned cold, Allen and I went sailing for the last time ... officially closed for the year. Every student that graduates from MIT is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... play the same games over and over, so I get through games at a slower ... overwhelming enough to require a guide. (Looking at you, The Prestige Tree.) My

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022