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• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  another Laura moved onto the floor over a year ago, I've been trying to get everyone to call me by my username (with very limited success) ever since. I ... of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  MIT, it’s that time flies by - whether it’s funtymz or ... always get past it and immediately get behind another battle before we even realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview deadline?

  Action. After you submit your application, you may be contacted by an ... email address you provided on your application to contact you, so please monitor your inbox and respond promptly. If we are unable to offer you an
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... as an entrepreneur delivering an elevator pitch, you're going to need
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  -seven consecutive hours of consciousness in my scramble to actually finish it. By the ... so hard to remember that "you do not have to walk on your knees for a ... 's In Search of Lost Time, and some poetry collections, as recommended to me by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  sinking feeling that I was able to shake off by taking a few swimming ... that just falls into your lap. As Block Island began to fade into view ... in the dock, my wandering thoughts continued to hang on each new sight

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  should all move there. It's great that you don't have to move to New York or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... go through these cycles. Don't get me wrong; I am glad that I go to MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  sometimes you get little pictures throughout your recipe to check to make sure ... Latin, I’m adding a third language to my database this semester (and by ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... trip, I strongly encourage you to check your emails.   February

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... hear the challenges and get to building. Would we have the chops to make ... hours? We listened to the keynotes — one by a startup making smart

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive immersion that allows you to take the second level during the spring semester! These classes are limited-enrollment and available by special lottery only

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... ?) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday were mostly lost to psetting (so what's new ... , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a “pass” on your transcript;  if not, there's no record you took it. The
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  You'll get another new entry today as I work on my 20 page paper. But ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job ... lobe piercings. For a while, I had wanted to get more piercings, but

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  brought smiles to all those who passed by. To share the happiness, here are ... Technology 10/26: MIT Zoo 10/21: Hack to the Future 10/12: New Bexley 9 ... @ MIT (with links to images): 12/3: Swinging Piñatas 11/22: Up the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  whole mess getting ready to be sad. It's like, you know when you're going ... get my heart broken in new ways. I didn't know I needed these things ... I’m going to get. Wouldn’t it be nice, living in Boston, visiting MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  Kendall and Central squares to obtain food and given me a new appreciation ... , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... to simpler times, where success for me was simply defined by good

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... in New York City. Ruthie scored some tickets to The Colbert Report ... it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007