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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  night of live music, dancing, and some pretty funky Haitian food, and ... in Haiti, after sitting in on meetings with NGOs and NPOs and ... the current state of water quality in Haiti. And somehow, it all came

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  some core classes out of the way, including single and multivariable ... , ands, or buts, you will take these classes (or pass out of them). There ... prides itself on is making sure you have an enjoyable and fair first

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  alums will not have seen any part of your application and are not ... applying to MIT. Do a little research on the web, and think of some questions ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  exploring the interaction between my protein and one of the proteins I found ... proteins, staining them with fluorescent antibodies, and imaging them on the ... of the actin cytoskeleton, which is involved in learning and memory

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  . On Monday, I picked up a copy of the Rune, MIT's art and literary ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... 've sure learned a lot of lessons and made a lot of friends, but I've made

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  thing of great pride for a college, and they will entice good musicians ... all the pretense of being a real Trinity student and sat down in one of the long, sideways stalls. **Sorry I don't have any pictures of the

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  of Mexico on the weekends, while working during the week, and got to ... gain a better understanding of the social, political and economic systems ... Madrid; and several departmental programs), MIT does a great job of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always asks me about it, and i tell him it's not the same any more. he's always ... . and i'm tired. this year i will leave mit, like many of my friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  I'm ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh** Well, I kinda wish I'd been ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh**, but I wasn't. Instead, I ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... hang out and relax. I originally planned on driving back that night, but ... was able to spend a night away from the noises of the city and spend

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  drop everything and sleep.] This type of architecture studio course ... know, the practical sides of architecture like foundations and insulation ... : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing ... Here is a picture of Allan's room, snipped from here: He left this ... 're also very different people. And yet, we have become good friends. It

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  drive, and I'd planned on driving it until I couldn't drive it any more ... often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... , LARPing, literature, and so forth. Let me share with you a few stories of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... , and looking at the future I saw only hazy outlines of possible paths. At ... winter break and boiled down to a couple of basic, but essential, facts: 1

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and splitting and changing. Looking back, however, it was one of the most

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  by Walter Lewin on neutron stars, and now much more of it will be spent ... Bekefi and Barrett from under a pile of crap. Luckily on the first page I ... town of Ipswich, MA, is really very beautiful and if you go on a misty

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... called her home from West Campus and gathered the entire hall into the ... : The candles were lit, and it was time to sing. All of the upperclassmen

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017