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• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to ... you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... , we created LEGOLANCE, PRINCE OF MIRKWOOD by attaching a Lego lance to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  other goals for the summer? To have one of these made by the end of the ... To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... Environmentally friendly! Sounds good to me. Any non-work-related goals for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  their connections and try to find a placement for you. MISTI will also get ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  retake 006 instead of taking 6.034 since I want to get credit for 6 ... applications and to account for human intelligence from a computational point of ... 've wanted to take this class for a while now since I hear it's really fun and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to ... say, okay, well, i'm going to the party. i'll be there for an hour, max

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... this point, my project may or may not be done by the time I leave for ... lab. It's nice to know I don't do it for the tangible rewards. :) MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  new course 20) was limited to 20 students for the class of 2009. Was it ... ! Sebastian wrote, "Hi Matt, is the reply for MIT supposed to be postmarked by ... willing to give an extension on the May 1 deadline for financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was ... libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for a new graduate dorm, pioneered a center for synthetic biology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  brought to you by Sahar H. '17, founder of the Sleep is for the Strong ... This post is for the MIT students about to embark on finals week ... 's okay for you to struggle as well. Head to gym after your first final and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don ... about to say that.” For starters, there's D-Lab a trilogy of courses

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  that hopefully more passers-by get to enjoy it. Step 2: Acquire supplies ... too large. By the time you get to about the end (when the curve is ... !🎶 Listen to crab rave on repeat for an hour. Lie in the snow and make a snow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways ... directions is impressive, we are not actually impressed by the inability to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  fix that to something more normal but messing up by half ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  for any current adMITs to make their decision based on this post, but ... collecting clean audio. If you've gotten to the point where you're getting ... appreciative but balanced way; I had never been exposed to the very New England

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... a reward for being the first person to arrive at spring registration ... bitch, so get more copies if you can! this message was sponsored by Wow I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... food or a milkshake at nearby Quincy Market, and get super close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the ... , telling me that we're going to school (for some odd reason, I never used an ... to anything significant (like graduating, for example), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... opposed to the crucible, the furnace where you gather new glass. Yes, it ... practice session getting over it. By the end, my deep sadness has faded, out

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they ... patterns for function. Similarly, this cover letter is difficult for me to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  neglecting to take care of myself by taking time for myself, and ignored the ... new, but I just don't think it was the right thing for me to do in the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012