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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure, but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  : As a meche always looking to discover new makerspaces, I was so happy ... designing it? Rima: If there’s one thing I know about MIT is that it ... different nooks and crannies that become home to different groups. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition ... -necessitated innovations like the now ubiquitous interactive virtual information sessions, I ... and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better about staying in touch with my friends than I was when I was while I was at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... overlaid. And hydroboration oxidation is Anti-Markovnikov. I really have been

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics. Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I ... math, and math with computer science. I do pure math, which will be the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  On a weekday, I meet my friend Alberto H. ‘17, who I haven’t seen in ... . I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the ... with my friend Sally M. '16, I spent the next few hours CNC machining two

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  Hello! One of the first things I wrote about as a staff blogger was ... passed since that blog post and I’d like to give you an update. When I last checked in, I was just settling into my new life in Cambridge, MA

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  "I've been tooling all night."  "I'm so hosed."  "IHTFP."  "I just ... , you should.  It's a superb piece of journalism). I think these two ... perceptions can't possibly be correct. I'm just a freshman.  I don't have years

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the ... notoriously tedious and time-consuming. It relies on Java, which I haven

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  an Italian family and speaking fluent Spanish, I have often been asked why I chose MISTI Germany over other country programs. While I did consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  's twice as old as the United States. If I could massively overgeneralize for a moment, I would say that the biggest difference between the culture ... tradition; it's a different perspective, and that's what I was looking for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I'm friends with "MIT Engineers" on facebook, from whom I get the latest Tech ... the MIT shuttles (cue the: when I was your age, we stood outside in the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  parts are back at school today - I dropped my brother off at school this morning, meaning I woke up at 7:15 (the horror!). The house is empty and I ... last semester that I never got around to posting. From 6

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since what seems like forever. I know what that feels like. When regular action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  ahead like infinite corridors. A year ago: I tried/ditched required ... and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009