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• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  running and running, eyes set on the shining lighthouse that was MIT, and I ... put on. But every flight home was a stutter in the movie, a break in the ... cursing the very ground you stand on, you pick yourself up. And you dismiss

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  ; and the second, a class on musicals, did not have a quality of ... were weeks where I was working twenty hours on top of classes and ... Con Vice President, a job involving lots of organizing and working with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  whenever I can, and when lab is closed I work on my other classes. Of course ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  Muslim students and staff would gather under the roof of a building ... flames of divide, politiical dissatisfaction and religious unease, often ... of the retaliators were highly perceived and nontrivial, reflecting an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... : we can replace traditional capitalistic and commodified forms of value and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  , after Harry Potter but before any other book series, fanfiction, and the ... , but their MIT -- full of friendship, companions for psets and for adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the ... my chest, a longing to be fully understood and to be home. Though the ... outside my meek and unobtrusive apartment building on California Street. Her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the stress level on campus would be pretty high right now, most of my ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... MIT. In my humble opinion, and the opinion of millions of fans, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  One week ago, an eclectic group of ambitious young men and women ... hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of ... ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... and noticed a tabloid magazine on the counter which, as far as my ... talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post ... pains and pleasures of MIT for yourself, and give me a chance to play host

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT ... results. -Features summaries by undergrads of all ages and research areas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  . On top of that, with grains, meats, proteins, and vegetables, I think ... . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the ... this newfangled WYSIWYG editor? Gone are the days of WYGIWYG :( And why

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  spent on taking a picture of a guitar and making it look like a digitally ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  any of them. MIT is so big, and everyone here is so smart, and sometimes ... she has four years of life experience on me and everyone around us. She ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... aiming for a class of about 1130 students this year. Based on our estimates ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that ... County on 9/20), Pennsylvania (central mtg in Philly on 9/25), and New

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  February. I don't especially like any of these ideas and would prefer ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... sure just how relevant this is to any of you, but I will gladly write

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  an RAA and I can confidently say that they are a group of really great ... to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films. On top of the movies every week, MIT gives RBA groups a lot of money to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... started exploding into a bunch of craziness and hoohah) that I had no ... , which determines a song's relative "summerness" based on qualities of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011