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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire ... ever and ever and ever :3 Being able to do that is simply all the good

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... and the potential for the Leveraged Freedom Wheelchair (LFC) to be used ... heading back to Massachusetts tomorrow, and the rest of us have less than

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  catfished by a hotel online only to discover you may not survive the night) before heading over to Level99. Level99 was created/founded/birthed by the ... something about it in the near future, but suffice it to say it was very MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby 13, the dancers-to-be had convened from near and far, hailing from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team ... something unrelated to my classes. I want to bike the Minuteman Trail, and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... to alter his curriculum from 10.40, which is thermo at the graduate ... . Sorry, Sam's Mom, the Mediterranean complexion you gave me will go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  watched reflected light dance in the ocean. I was trying to catch the ... excess and I couldn’t help myself. Hong Kong is home to both the cheapest ... are “Man, I need to fight the power, but I need that new Ferrari

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  you the tools you'll need to forge ahead. Try to get some rest Friday ... , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... by the periwinkle plant C. roseus, so a major part of what we do ... Wild Party or prefrosh who want to know how to get into MIT 1

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your ... fundraising scheme, click here to read it. Help them raise the $30 million that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  and seems to be dying to see the world. He’ll be following me around as I’m about to leave the hall, and when I close the stair door behind ... to escape that he JUMPED OUT of them and fell FIVE STORIES to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... audience. Only the Hamentashen side is getting little stickers to go along ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... Committee will primarily look to the Midyear Report for your updates. What ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  out to my third class of the day. After classes, I took the elevator up ... friends. When the library closed, we split up and I walked back to my dorm ... Quizlet decks to study, or even as I returned my plate and utensils to the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  from the Bombers only by committing a lot of time to them, i'm worried ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  letter to the admission office?" We accept January scores on a case-by ... it exists. I went to the preprofessional advising site, but I can ... have had MAJOR syllabi changes(going from ICSE to CBSE in the middle of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  felt, unlike any other.  I helped her to her room.  I got a bowl from the ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room, I got called over by a friend down the hall.  He told me that he had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014