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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  top of the page, there's a high-rise (16 floors total) and a low-rise (4 ... day-to-day life than the culture of the dorm as a whole. MacGregor's i3 ... . The dorm as a whole shares several facilities, such as the laundry room

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  ”, many of whom I saw for the first time in two years this summer ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... forget it again in the fall haze of week after week of classes. I love MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  Cambridge (the panoramic on the Wikipedia page is a pretty apt description of ... Comm? Grace: We first met at the end of last spring with a few previous Ring ... a line of almost 1000 people, first to get raffle tickets, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... distribution scheduled for the first two weeks of May—mark your calendars ... eight sections, plus a small introduction, comprise the 400 pages of this

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  until the first or second week of May. What has the waitlist looked like ... here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about 1050 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have ... semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  [/caption] Living on my own for the first time and spending most of my day on research ... . I’m from the East Bay of California. I share a birthday with Mitski ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming ... I've enjoyed the first session so much, where we spent the time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  ’m afraid of the Wolf of Wall Street.”  … When freshmen first get to campus ... the first day of classes, you become a freshman, but until then you are ... Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  oscillating) weekly routine. First, a bit about general structure. A “whole ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  Bridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note ... to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  —and showed us, for comparison, her first comics page and one of the pages she drew toward the end.     The first image is a redraw of her first ... acclimating us to the world of comic writing. She spent the first part of the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  '13 came up to deal with the problem of inadequate communication and ... same field of interest, in the same area, with the same target population, at the same time. Which more or less sounds like massive amounts of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  wind down. I've got a life update on the way, but first, I thought I ... the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that ... making the rounds on reuse. To give you even more of an idea of what you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8 ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have ... "] John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum, where he devises the theory of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  the race started and I felt on top of the world for the first five miles ... can simply be the first of many small, stumbling steps towards something ... and 80% of the words on this page were written by Dora '18. The tiny

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 ... how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  "]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I ... patriotic the whole school was. Before starting GTL, my vision of private ... all three of these languages from the time they first start school. When

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025