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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  inside any of these dorms and find brightly-colored walls (and sometimes ... 's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... is not actually east of Mass Ave) and Baker, Burton-Conner, Mc

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  with a lot of senioritis (yes, there is a wikipedia article on it) and I ... ‘12 and I were the only prefrosh to go on the tour of the dorm. It ... vector, time is a scalar, so I caught the shuttle and arrived on campus

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  , I turned the page, and went on, shuddering in a rising tide of despair ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  residential summer program in the MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and ... hands-on experiments and team-based projects. Please note that all three ... , and WTP -- have their application deadlines next week. All three are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing video games and walking around and being on voice calls and scrolling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... . # When it comes to pen and paper of any sort, imposing order is a fruitless ... 's mostly thoughts of being on the road, schedules of my next few days, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... "]first-year-posting jitters[/annotation] and the fear of being perceived; I'm hoping to be on my ... whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her ... the consequences of alcohol abuse. Grace's article is a great read, and ... drinking age is 21. It was a culture shock. How would a bunch of 18- and 19

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  ; I didn't do any, and I got in; the majority of MIT admits have not ... any cross-study of Wharton and Sloan? and how's Sloan as a graduate ... office on an errand today and all of the MIT stuff is gone! I assure you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  currently listening to: Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini And we ... like Massachusetts, and the world ticks on. Most of the landscape has ... happens anyways, and, in any case, is too deep of a rabbithole to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  because of this, then they're not truly a good friend. And if you have any ... fact that I got to go home and rant to my parents every night. But I know ... the hallway, turning around, and seeing people quiet down instead of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... . If you want, prepare waffles in the toaster and put the meat on top of ... that there are zillions of crockpot meat and chicken recipes on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4 ... 'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... classes, just hanging out with friends, and things of that nature that MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... has led to hundreds of notes to delete, and I thought I'd share some ... list of books I wanted to take home to Tennessee. I like the chaos of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  definitely be available online on the 18th, and if all goes well we'll mail on ... Wow. Just got home - so many emotions. Feeling quite tired, but very proud of the class we've admitted. The predominant feeling, however, is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  of my toys across the backyard, and playing tic tac toe with my mom on ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and ... of art techniques, like different types of sketching and stuff. Also, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... mug is also from him, and is sitting on top of what will hopefully soon ... . I got jealous of Max’s cube and bought the same one. I solved it on my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got ... home. Nick M., my roommate's prefrosh, took some amazing shots of campus that he offered to share:       Hope to see you both -- and the rest of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  bars, culture spanning thousands of years, and heated toilet seats. This ... working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note ... of the electrical system and the power consumption of the mission, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023