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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  knowledge to see towns and cities with a big picture and small picture view ... ; I came to MIT because I was good at math and science. After spending a year and a half in engineering, I wanted to zoom out away from the nitty

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... ; This semester has been by far the toughest, most challenging to date ... 've constantly reminded myself that I didn't come to MIT expecting easy. It was by

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  get a tattoo (apparently at the metal fests in Scotland, which are ... ’s shoulders throw up in the port-a-potty toilets get in the mosh pit I ... ’re in a space too big to explore all of it.  Before entering any crowds

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  ring — a design element that has persisted to the modern day. MIT ... graduating class before I took a gap year) was supposed to have our Ring Delivery in Spring 2020. Due to the pandemic, Ring Delivery got pushed back a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  with a fellow MIT student, Alessondra, I get to visit some of the middle ... staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the ... this: adults volunteer to undergo a brief training course that teaches

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  is to be a person living in a world and being surrounded by other ... whole entire school year), so i’m going to set a timer for 25 minutes ... words to say something that could have probably been conveyed in just a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  than done, but try to remain a semi-reasonable human being. Don't hole yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... these past three years - to start up a high school chapter of Amnesty

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  then (finally) get a dog. Everything was going according to plan. I was ... normal fashion only to be thrown radically off course a quarter way through ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a ... having a life will apply wherever you go to school next year - but you ... find a good new release (or an old album by a band I'd never heard of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did ... getting really old. Or they could have said "becoming an adult" – as a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  a zero get hit on by an eight? He puts on a belt! Sitting in the café ... going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different ... JSF was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We were exposed to a side of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As ... writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... ? You only have room for a couple of activities, some may have to be

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  about being a cast member: the actual show. The reason I’m only getting to ... single helps me get back to my priorities” and “my body can run a half ... . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a ... with bodies of water. The Charles River has been a silent witness to a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  emitted by gases in distant parts of the galaxy to derive a rotation curve ... get a lot more done over spring break in all my classes. Consequently, I ... light, is definitely by far the fewest number of units I've stood to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  take the time to get to know them. Hop in a new acquaintance's car for an ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  hopefully no one is looking for a grand unified theme. First, I would like to ... program (ranked #2 in USNWR). This gets a giant "hurray" from me. ... It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... nation. The course is able to slide by as a humanities because the focus is ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015