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• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on ... my internship to end on August 27th, which would be the day before REX ... experience; I remember organizing folks in the kitchen, trying to get as much

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  and had to get to the other, you went on an overpass. A footbridge ...  rice with forks? How are you going to scoop it into your mouth? The default of ... cards. And even of the places that do, often, getting a card to work takes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... applying to my programs. (I got a better score on the GRE than I did on the ... junior year. I was on the varsity quiz team, which went to the state

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the ... four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to ... dinner. I used nearly all of my guest passes, but we managed to get all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  . You're about to walk, drive, pogo stick, fly or boat to Cambridge, MA ... interest you. You're no longer trying to impress anybody. Cleaning the banks of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  going on, and I’m still trying to get a deep sense of what this semester ... at the front seat Ninjas. Somehow, I didn’t get hit too much. I had to ... . And if you ever want to a chuckle, find a way to get the list of 101

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  . Ignore the four-star ratings on the website--the people who posted that are ... to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on ... personal trainer always seems to put on Food Network... and Rachael Ray is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  was thoughtfully written. I would especially draw your attention to ... , you can download the plan, or read the recommendations on the website ... to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  waking up to ensure your day   gets off on the right foot? What happened ... obscenely full from time to time though.  Your dorm is on fire. Grab five ... respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your ... how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a ... various other events. They have a (FREE!) CD out that's available on their website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  Wales (the obvious thing to name a new country). Apparently, on the way ... 't going to come find you when you're struggling and ask you what's going on ... "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... desperate to get some numerical data, so I attributed these disappointing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Get Animated A holiday comic.

  

  A random highlight of some holidays is getting emailed the latest comic from my friend and former apartment-mate Jen '01. Here's her comic ... Jennifer's Comics. Jen is also a fantastic baker -- if you want to drool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  'm trying to get over this feeling). The feeling that I shouldn't blog until I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I ... time writing/researching. So, from here on out, I'll try to post more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  new and scary. On the flip side, the transition to the fall climate has ... adapting to the hot and muggy New England summers, it suddenly became cold and dry. Yay. So on Saturday, to prepare for the worst, I went winter

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  doodles that I drew during class today. Nay – today… we get down to BUSINESS ... , write a review of a performance and post it on your blog if you have one ... getting a glimpse into the humanities here. So here we are, about to embark

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  stuck in your head for days on end, returned to conducted the BSO (he was ... began packing to move into my new apartment, for which we've already paid ... from Shaw's on the way back to the retirement home. Even then, nothing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... , members of the MIT Varsity Football Team have gone on to such accolades as ... ) had to say about it: I've had to get used to people saying in disbelief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006