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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first ... like the wind.   5:25 PM: I look up from my computer for the first ... upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a ... take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of ... 'm disappointed to miss, the great Hawaii Club Luau, the beginning of the Buddhist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  first day of lecture. It was “shocking.” I apologize for the pun. *The ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... ." -Richard Feynman (Class of 1939) People get very caught up in the idea that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  first time now[/annotation] because of the new BBC/HBO television ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because ... applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... ." Pfft. Come to Japan and they'll show you what the lack of personal space

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  fire by the mouth of the quarry. Some people heated up food and roasted ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the ... In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... .                The above are my two favorite photos of this blog post. They are from ... Boston, and Somerville—the vines and flowers and old brick against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... expected to come out of my first year feeling completely changed. And yet I ... looking through pictures of the past year, from fancy formal pictures to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  4th, 2017, the first day of class, in the basement library of the ... walking tour of downtown Madrid on the first weekend, taking a group of ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  first, under Josh’s instruction. He kept testing the limits of how fast ... molds for the plastic pieces of our yo-yo. I’ll make a blog on the yo ... iterating on the design and re-making some of the parts"]10[/annotation] mold

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  , innocuously dubbed the First Day of Classes. Fondly do I remember ditching my ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  him reevaluate his life reminded me of the times when i, too, had a ... an engineer or scientist like so many of my peers. i feel the years ... trunk, one inside the next - as cisneros describes it - than a stack of

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Center, where my first class of the day is. Inside the Stata Center Down the steps to my classroom Made it to my first class of the day, 8 ... single morning. I stepped onto the sidewalk and took another picture of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... engineering experience.   The effort spans the early phases of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  time, I first think of the long and cramped East Campus hallway that was ... after the first snow of the year, and making each other tea and cookies ... College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ). One of the reporters, Andrei, told me (in Russian), &ldquo ... out of touch with American life that I didn’t even remember the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... of the energy challenge: Adding to the pressure for multiple approaches ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... them, and they used the Common App. I picked my first college because it ... fit in. For the first time in my life I didn't enjoy school anymore. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011