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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... happy endings, even if you don't end up at your first-choice college. Just ... that actually has four distinct seasons, go look at the leaves sometime

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  number at random, and person #1 gets first pick of the rooms. Once they ... developed at the Media Lab because I'm particularly interested in it!" This ... control their toy. At the first meeting of our advising seminar, we split

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... a higher priority. So, for the first time at MIT, after a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  i remember from looking at data, he at least got pretty close. one ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... the game plus all expansions, but we weren't playing at a high enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  pugh charts comparing all the things I was involved in at MIT and Rocket ... content in this blogpost is based off of notes I found when looking back at ... . MIT Rocket Team: a student run maker team at MIT dedicated to developing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 ... . December 31st of 2015 was my last day of work at Triad Speakers in Portland

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where ... sit down at a table on the first floor with my juice, turn on Taylor ... much separated in age from you, if at all. He says something that I don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  looking to learn something new to check it out at ocw.mit.edu! the 18 ... [annotation note= "every MIT student is required to take at least eight HASS ... from this course. The most popular questions are discussed at the end of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown ... most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can ... January at MIT can look like—I know I sure did :) Hi, I’m Heidi Z. ‘27, a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  . June 5th, Copenhagen 6pm They lost my bags in Amsterdam. The man at ... I passed by smelled amazing. 10 pm, at the bar of my hostel I ... dozens of people snore, cough, sneeze. At 6 am alarms start going off, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless ... couple times after that, once at a journalism convention in senior year of ... at columbia don't say poggers," jeff told me. "they just don't laugh at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  admissions office, near the Institute's iconic entrance at 77 Massachusetts ... admissions office, and the Welcome Center, have been in development since at ... open, and there is someone at the front desk who can help answer your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud with friends ... -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... places: to the Christian science plaza, which looks beautiful at night; to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  ‘internship’ at MIT, you mean an internship with an outside company. Research has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am ... research. Some promised that every student could do research at least once in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  antsy. Friday turned into Saturday and I was staring up at the underside ... needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... hallway playing with a hyper Kiko before I went back to my room. -- At 3 AM

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  even post anything at all because that spark that was once there is now ... it is at MIT. I cried if I didn't understand things. Got frustrated and threw things at walls, broke things, even went as far as to banging my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT ... officers at MIT are expected to work 6 days out of the week, to meet our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... downstairs, and then I went to sleep. I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first ... of friends. The sun starts to set at around 6, which was when I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020