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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... Gainsbourg, Melancholia opens up to a surreal, slow motion introductory sequence (a la Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life) set to Wagner

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  in the lounge, or working on a pset, or walking to Hayden to get ... bridge. It leads to a small patch of land. On top of the bridge you get to ... to more lectures, or recitations. Then a student group gives an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but ... daydreamed about getting a minor in political science. I also pushed Chemistry

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a ... in terms of walking and public transit; it helps me get from point A to ... This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side-by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... to have full internet access from work until Tuesday, so don't expet any great updates until then. Anyways. I've managed to get myself

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get outside, we get out of MIT pretty often! Going to school here is really ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  worry about getting run down by bicyclists who are, as far as I can tell ... break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... and we'll get back to you. ... If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  's skull was going to get smashed in by a cow hoof) but two of the teams were ... coaxing, I managed to wobble (screeching) down the sidewalk to a gyro cafe and back. Two days later, I managed to transport myself down a riverside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  that last one up), but it mostly just boils down to you getting hosed by ... , "Getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose" which is ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that Course 1 allows me the opportunity to participate in a program such as this

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  foil. Rutherford, of course, did it to get a clearer picture of atomic ... crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by ... doorway and enter a room that has been engineered to optimize the room

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to ... "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  talking in Spanish anyway. She was a lost tourist who wanted to get to the ... take a winding cobblestone path up narrow stairs to get to the unlit ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  reason to rush your application to us by November 1st, especially if you ... "   We've added a question to the activities section where you can indicate ... we're asking it, to help you get the information you need as quickly as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded ... surviving building. Right next to the statehouse is a marker commemorating the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  I graduate and don't get to be a rockstar blogger anymore. Ack!) So ... are more likely to go a little something like this: (A friend sent me that and I had to share. Tensor! Ha! Get it? Don't worry if you don't, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... MIT grad school now, don't expect to get out with a PhD in less than 5 ... had to take 15 and a half classes in one semester just to get one degree

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  when I was seized by the sudden urge to sacrifice a chunk of my dignity ... start every talk by laying out a ground rule: if someone gets lost, they ... honest, I still get terrified every single time I have to make a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012