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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  . We help ourselves to the dizzying array of food (nearly all prepared by ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... that I’m going to make an impact tomorrow. For my fellow course 2’s, we ... of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  for now, since it'll probably change by tomorrow and we'll be back to ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... have to make an emergency flight from San Francisco to Boston because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  Every roommate I’ve lived with quickly discovers my hidden superpower: I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  -profit organization status: $25,000 would be donated to the station by Turner under the ... intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over satellite to cable operators across the US, wanted to use the call letters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  , especially the children, were to see us. Rather than making us feel like ... the chance to see the making of a few handicrafts, and the following day ... of the airport to Doha's Corniche. My goal for the day was to stop by

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... interest which sparked my decision to pursue STEM in the first place: CS. By ... that I'm not good enough to make the most out of it. If I really hated 6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  doing it right. And so I followed their advice. I tried to make the most ... makes me feel about as awful as not doing anything all. I'm starting to ... clock smacks me hard enough to make me do something.   —time skip—

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  enjoy it. It's an easy and fun way to make some money on the side of my ... lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that"]A[/annotation] few days ago, my Google Calendar returned to its pre-exile state, aka

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  to help make that happen. Sure, that's idealistic, but that doesn ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  . I go to bed by midnight and wake up early to take advantage of the ... devices that my lab wants to build. We’re trying to make that stuff more ... has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  good at making stuff and so on. and i feel the need to be all these ... that you won’t convince me to change by disproving the assumptions i hold ... and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  by one to announce their prizes. While HackMIT gave out the main prizes ... York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... just talking about the blockchain. I wanted to actually code something

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... up? We wouldn’t want him to be overwhelmed by a new environment.” She

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  , and they were not amused the second time he tried to put it on. By the ... Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  office to find out that my duet partner couldn't make it. Cue nausea ... promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... 'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... decided not to continue playing their competitive sports after high school ... in shape year round. I never have to worry about voluntarily getting to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011