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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  -packed to make up for it! This will be easy to do, since I had a pretty jam ... to quiet down by the night security guard, only the night security ... blizzard-like conditions. I was able to make good use of the underground

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  first place - by giving people more freedom to decide where they'll live ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  . Charles Huang, co-founder at Charitweet, allowing you to make donations to ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund run by students for students. At DRF, college students become investment

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  make claims as to whether or not someone is a good candidate because in ... science, it's about wanting to make a difference in the world. I'm also just ... of options when I need to make a decision. Sean wrote: "Hi, I am a

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  desserts? Well it's time for you to try Dessert Pizza! Come make your very ... to make the plushie will be provided. Curious what exactly a plush ... to make your own refreshments!  Loop Kitchen 21:17-23:17 Spinning on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I ... knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical ... figure. Not only did we have to figure out who the person was, but also who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  for me while we sampled some AppleBake treats: I'm ashamed to say that ... eating to be done once I woke up, though! Right after hearing the AppleBake results, the Conner 2 freshmen rushed back up to our floor to work on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  -word mess to make sense with what I am now working on. For the first few ... After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  reviews make it out to be. only 2% of reviews were 1 star so i lost the rng ... these different things that I’m up to. I guess this is what we mean by ... straight months make me forget how to be an MIT student? I also keep feeling

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Apple was trying to make its stores seem like a church, a sacred space ... be his uncompromising - to a fault - dedication to making things that ... wading around in the rising water, making sure that everything essential

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  , I’m not even shaken by needles anymore. I had to get eight shots ... get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... courses are referred to by the material they cover, like ‘abstract algebra ... greater proportion of their lives to the arts. This makes sense, because at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  question: "To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf! It's a really really really ... was anything to judge by, you might leave a little bewildered. Me: Ben ... Let’s take a tour. Begin by walking down Dorm Row, which takes you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years ... from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• 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!

  

  experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an ... gained by staying in the US, and it's going to be interesting to bring that ... use by MISTI - MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  /employment plans, or just life in general. Sometimes you have to make an appointment ... ? What's the project? Oh lord, I'm going to make an idiot out of myself ... moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and ... or inspiration to have anything to say. But ah well, so it goes sometimes. Thankfully, the semester is over and it's on to bigger and better

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011