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• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  to get. Usually you can buy older editions of textbooks for a lot less ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying ... if you get there early you can buy a used copy. Also, it's been my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... : https://youtu.be/xDYFL2uA7D4 So yes, I did get hit hard by MIT. Full

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  year." 11.5 hours a year saved? But what happens when you get to the end of the trottoir and have to wait a minute for your train, or for ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  ="116802" /] 10:00 - I BlueBike over to MIT Campus As MIT students, we get a ... during the summer. You have to walk a little ways out to the Chipotle by ... and came back to get a masters, continuing his pursuits with underwater

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  , all in very beautiful ways. I went with Nora to a poetry reading by ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although ... class or take any exams and you do not get a grade

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... , or if you never received it, you may call our office to get it (please ... and waitlisted applicants will not see a change.) If you do not wish to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ="52584" /]   Did you finally dye your hair like you wanted to? Get a tattoo ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  Instagrammable slushy drinks and a dance floor. the heat was starting to get to me ... to go home and get some rest. sadly, we had a long drive ahead of us ... interesting time to be surrounded by tons of MIT students in a club far away

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at ... computer eats up the power used by Ice Land in a year to learn how to speak ... maybe you don't want to understand a big thing by looking at the small

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... running all the way to the Museum of Science by the Charles just to catch up ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... performance by Angels and Airwaves. Biodiesel@MIT has developed a unique ... purchase a solar-powered biodiesel station to make their dream of turning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my ... to get a generous seven of the 25 questions wrong and still pass. With ... , I barely scraped by with just enough correct answers to pass. But a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  listening to a story told by someone who graduated when the current freshmen ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames ... costume, then searched my room for a fridge, with grand plans to get Thai ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  over Killian Court, to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, an ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... ’m trying to figure out if I can be a grownup and still like comic books. Life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , bowl ban", ESPN "40 Reasons to Still be a Proud Penn Stater," by Onward ... destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... wherever they were standing to reattach it, only to have it fall off again a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... weeks go by and I try to get ready to start working on this assignment. I ... to convey to your audience in a 90-120 second segment of video, a clear

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023