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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  they end up choosing. I know, it's very important and you're dying to ... . Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It ... generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  and competitions, and exams to make-up when I'm back. I don't get any ... skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... training as I can. Some days when I can't make the hour round-trip commute to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  heebie jeebies with your art? Starting off faithful to the human likeness ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  and contrast in order to make things a bit more visible. Ahhhhhhh ... , it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see ... , that gives me 1.5 more days to learn everything. The good part? I think I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  : Making insulation out of household materials 11th Grade: KRASTY Now Krasty ... . You're in college now." Here's the catch. It's MIT, a place with as many things to see and do as Walt Disney World. So far in my little trip down

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  . Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call ... didn't make me any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the ... -lined asphalt to Honey Pot Hills Orchards. Laden with sleepy MIT students, the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to take, c) what dates your professors feel like assigning major papers/tests, and d) your personal procrastination preferences, the weeks around the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  feels like…it just feels like MIT is preparing us to go out there and make ... themselves into your lives. Hopefully, they’ll come to understand the things ... jigsaw puzzles to define you. They’ll have to make extremely tough

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  What's that? You're dying to find out how we managed to ice skate on Frog ... more years to finish that list. I've decided to make it a personal goal ... Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you're ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours ... 'll probably miss you, and you're excited because the airport you're going to has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  MIT. When you're stuck, there are friends there to help you deal with your problems. And when there are problems you don't know how to deal ... my hall and making new friends with hallmates. I no longer tool alone

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  another skill to draw from and incorporate into your writing." For Sato ... Maker culture is thriving, and it doesn't just refer to making robots and ... One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  also exploratory: you will begin to make sense of ideas through the ... you need to do something different, more in line with your goals. This ... -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  crushingly sad but also inspiring; I resolved to make the most of my remaining ... feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  -looking appearance, and there's generally not as much freedom to make modifications to ... think are intended to make MIT "more like Harvard". One misperception ... , though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Hampshire to ski down a 4,000 foot mountain. Your call! A few days before ... it's a mistake to make one-sided assumptions without experiencing it ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  , Boston looked like this: It had snowed just enough to make everything ... tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  feet happy. I also happen to think it makes a great fashion statement...) ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010