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• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I ... ’m a senior, and he’s a junior. We still live in the same floor of Random ... first name, and this was a fun fact we bonded over the first time we met

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... onto my face within the first ten seconds of going down the bunny slope ... "little" or "lil" in their name. Who was the first director of MTL? What

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  sent out postcards confirming the receipt of your form, but apparently ... dot edu. You haven't answered by question in any of the past few ... new course 20) was limited to 20 students for the class of 2009. Was it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of ... revolving door of chalkers started helping out. I made peace with the dust ... the sad chalky nubs of what had been to decorate milestone squares like

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  MIT. ** If you are bored and want to demystify the first sentence of ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a ... questions. One could certainly argue that the connotation of the word

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  soon! For the parents whose student (only) will be attending CPW First of ... for the weekend: Parent events: Parents have been a part of Campus ... : Friday afternoon at 2pm, there will be a panel of the top student life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he ... airport, I felt myself breathing for the first time in a while. It felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note="The ... month (and the rest of the semester), all of my non-class related energy ... mentor, and I'm the only person responsible for actually doing any of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  school senior, the drum major of my marching band, the captain of the ... am now. The next nine years of my life fall into place during the ... graduate. It's a pretty sweet deal, with the exception of getting up at 6 AM

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  one large exception to this: the first day of classes. I had a few ... /30), the first day of classes (9/1), or the first weekend of the school year ... -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  between the kerning of those letters, everything is hiding.) I ... Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... . Glorious! In the past few years of my life, any real breaks have been spent

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... , so, at first, I felt like a trespasser wandering through the Medical ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC/no record grading system, I get the pleasure of being acquainted with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  MIT. For those of you that don't know, the first semester at MIT is on ... a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... requirements this semester, breaking the record for the most number of math ... classes go by."]6.042,[/annotation] which I call it by instead of the new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  't spend too much time in any one place. This one's a broader version of the first point; CPW is a smorgasboard of smorgasms*, and you should have them ... . MITERS has spawned a number of cool things, the most famous of which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering ... .....what's that? Can we enhance the image? Hmm the back of that head looks ... product showcase at the end of term in front of hundreds of industry experts

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional ... interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... forward to, and I'm psyched about next semester, because for the first time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022