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• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  've managed to stay on top of my technicals by devoting as little effort as ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the libraries. The caveat to using his room was that I had to answer the phone and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  , i decided to go for it.  my class started by introducing exponential ... choice to take one class outside my major but decided to stick to math ... look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... the greatest Michigan accent of all time, chose to teach the class such

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have ... Christmas decorating by covering our skylights with red and green paper and ... . Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  , instantly, by its almost insurpassable beauty. Most are not brave enough to ... to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... -Shave-November, as practiced by natives of New Hampshire, are sacred, but simple

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... college's sister's uncle's first wife's second marriage, but to people I ... in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• 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 ... 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 / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  first day of class. MASLab is staffed entirely by students, who give us ... -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... SpazBot, in pegboard form. I think Spazbot is trying to read green

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  to try: be blindfolded for 24 hours, inspired by a blog post I read. It ... between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  I have three final exams this week, so what better time to be ... ://techtv.mit.edu/about/)! If you think MIT students are too smothered with work to let their ... — http://techtv.mit.edu/file/31/ Most “MIT”: The Making of Mens et Manus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  nth Annual Concert in Bad Taste We are the mooninites..

  

  nth annual concert in Bad Taste. Basically, they make fun of everything ... the lyrics with their own. My favorite would have to be the song dedicated to Facebook, which is probably the reasons I get less sleep than I

  • by Bryan
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  As Ben has noted, we have begun the early action selection committee. We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to ... whatsoever. According to the National Weather Service, we had nearly record

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  's deadlines are almost certainly different. So many deadlines! It's easy to ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other ... Introduction to Engineering & Science): February 3 SSP (Summer Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  " over in Sloan but I won't make it there in time. A later passage down ... Contests, and even a Soccer Tournament I'll try to update this entry as I can with photos of events that I attend. Until then, I'm off to enjoy

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  ; Aerodynamics was the reason the license plates weren't attached to Tesseract ... were issued a fine, but if so, I'd be more than happy to help defray the ... Austin, TX, make its way through the Plains states/breadbasket provinces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  given to the stranger who brushes by you on the sidewalk.  In these times ... and limited to being mostly textual: an email to an advisor, letting ... sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  people go through rough times and directing students to the proper resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need ... meant to be an open discussion with administration about mental health

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  the Academic Expo. Stop by and talk to students about their experiences ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston ... weather attempts to dampen our moods, campus-wide excitement will not be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  , it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... interests, it's really hard to classify anything as "typical." Academically, I ... . From bhangra dancing to fighting poverty, from helping improve MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008