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• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  ’t screw up registration, and I get a class I wanted—beginner ice skating ... >:([/caption] After fooling around outside for a while we headed to Next’s dining hall to grab breakfast, and by the time we’d finished

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  visualization, or to watch a significant person in the field talk about it) 5) Get ... happiness. I spent a semester burned out because it took me a long time to learn this balancing act. Focus on it early.   Andres A. '17 Try to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  will be walking the runway today. I stop by to say hi and snap a couple ... the scenes to see how a fashion show is made. [caption id ... . Laptop Ensemble is trying out every cable they own to try and get the audio

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design ... . The idea is to get as many of these balls into the highest scoring bins

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  'll only get to know a tiny fraction, a mere sliver of them. I feel small ... capital. All I want is to get an email from myself a decade from now ... One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  Being a student at MIT can sometimes feel like drinking from a fire hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage the water pressure. They are a friendly and easily accessible hub of
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete ... my "friends" (names removed to protect the innocent). Here are a few ... Rogers) 7.012: Introduction to Biology (taught by Professor Eric Lander

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  significant inspiration to getting your own computer. Using a desktop as my ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  : Intensive study of a range of texts by a single author or by a limited group ... using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... -Century British Novels. reading list: Dubliners by James Joyce A Portrait of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  bulldozed to the ground last year. I also owe a big thank-you to Anne, who ... . Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road ... meetings with three organizations: BASIX, which works “to promote a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  peers who are happy to get up at 9 AM on a Saturday in December to solve ... Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to ... 't tend to do much to prepare--they might look over a few problems the day

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research ... the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost ... at UCLA's interview weekend, I was lucky to have a faculty member tell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your ... and processed, we will add it to your application as a placeholder until ... Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  : A new enhanced portlet will be launching in the next week to 10 days ... feel free to contact my office by email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or by ... Hi folks, First I just wanted to give mad props to the kind folks who

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... shoot (with a smaller camera), I spent a few hours struggling to fold the ... . I carried the camera to a decent spot along the lakeside, not too far

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  pronoun, as if it’s been said so many times that we found a need to shorten ... valuable, to someone valuable. A similar pattern is with English “dear”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  adults who want to live vicariously through me, as if I'm being pursued by ... consistently spend money to study at a coffee shop when I feel less guilty if I ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break ... three years of this stuff, I should be entitled to a month or two of just not caring whether or not you decide to do Terrascope or a freshman

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009