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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  representative, right? Sure, nothing new there. Some folks prefer to put their ... glamorous, but people, if you know exactly what you want to do with your life ... Requirements, to dine on your soul for a little while.) If MIT is going to work

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big-seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  also my one and only visit to the state. Get to know your professors ... feel that is cheating Show off your Boston sports pride ✅ I went to a ... Use your MIT ID to go to the MFA for free ✅ During the summer of my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... feel guilty about giving no time to my new hallmates. now that classes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of ... , too wiped to even get up to go to the bathroom, your mind wanders and ... , impose curfews, tell you to clean your room, do your homework, empty the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  it was hilarious. I found it a little like that "How do you get to ... would be to finish your applications way early to avoid all of the stress ... know you to write your letters of recommendation. You may even want to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of ... to inflict serious Hitchhock-esque damage to your person if you don ... . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  -story Gundam that moves and blinks its eyes, and then go get your ears cleaned by ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an ... accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  , they get to relive their triumph to an interested audience, in the latter case, they get to vent their bitterness. I care about the past because I ... TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... to the Student Center for Tech Twinkles, an event run by the the MIT ... (center)[/caption] I went to Thanksgiving II, a show by Roadkill Buffet

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  get students thinking at their seats. They responded by adding a few ... 't so bad for the kinetics unit, but by the time we got to gyroscopes ... try something new, but it was hard to keep up with those assignments on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  , it's not like you're the oldest person in the company by any stretch ... days, is what I want to do after I graduate. Lillian: You're a senior ... existing code, and it was written by some person. Then I need to work on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage ... pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class ... honest. Your application will be read by a small committee made up of AOs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  celebrations in New York City. I returned to Boston last Sunday (which happened ... exposed brick walls.) Ok, now I have to have a halloween costume by ... ? How about this...whoever gives me the best costume suggestion gets to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... opportunity to meet new people at the pop-up—seating arrangements are randomly decided. At this particular pop-up, I got the opportunity to get to know

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but ... activity with nowhere to go. Sure, so maybe you're facing different math ... Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just ... ;feature=youtu.be Freshman DTYD Hacks: Each year, freshman class gets to promote the party with ... meeting to decide shirt names, and it’s a lot of fun since you get to learn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  people passing by. Suite culture is a significant contributor to how social ... different vibes that tend to say a lot about the floor. In dorms like New ... to keep, and current ones shouldn't get hung up on the things that must

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  able to afford to fix up our house and get Cory a new (used) car, and I ... . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025