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• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  force it. this week, i went to a ballroom dancing class with a friend, and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair ... weird adjusting to a new dorm culture as a senior, particularly because

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  who are brave enough to live in the dorms with your kids! You'll get a ... prior to arrival! Everyone will get a host ... required! Just be sure to return the MIT Reply Form by May 1st

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . Albert's always there to help me if I get confused or hit a dead end. I ... finish the project by the time I graduate, I get to write the first draft ... as a grad student. You might get to do it as a postdoc. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... ended up writing a blog about it all, though. This summer, I wanted to get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way ... on her history book and wake up knowing everything. 9. I get to eat ... . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  (Take a look at “My Monday” by Yuliya K. '18 for her day in the life ... , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10 ... just a little distracted by the zoo animals, but I arrive at 10-250 with

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  by knowing what I have to look forward to and how I could get there ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how ... more generous. And knowing gives me a lifestyle to work towards, one full

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... . The roof of the cylinder lobby ring area. A jazz band played for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... break and attempt to recover being blasted away by six midterms and a ... got elected social chairs of Burton 1, and to celebrate that we had a Pi

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  time, just maybe, I'll get to say a proper goodbye to MIT. ... kicked off of campus, I was naive enough to believe that we'd be back by ... started to sink in that not only would we not be back by May, we might not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  to email me at [email protected] or leave a comment, and I'll get back ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... chance to get settled in. :) By the way, I've discovered that if you read ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  stop by and say hi to her! Also, a couple of years ago my floor (Conner ... Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... up to Susan Hockfield and said "May I give you a hug while not

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a ... onto fictional worlds to motivate me to soldier on. MIT surprised me by ... note="Holiday by Green Day"]--[/annotation] As soon as I got to college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  was that Jony had to draw by hand what they planned to make. “I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... am, to have regular access to a 3D printer and a laser cutter and drill

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  dancing to kids' tunes. I like to come for the crafts and get stuck at a ... supporting a local business by going to see a movie and stopping by the museum ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  an entire day to one project you can get a lot done. My teammates and I ... culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  , because we're edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college ... their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  out a year hoping to be favored by chance. Plausible, however, does not ... . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another ... to apply again in a subsequent application cycle. There are cases when

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and we're trying our hardest to get through the thousands of applications

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020