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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  students cry en masse, Your confidence, you will come to lament." It could ... will let me be your queen Let me succeed, and bring on 5.13. Ode to 9 ... /limerick composition; Person who posts the best one gets either a) a prize sent to him

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to the MFA. 11:25 am: I get bored of Stata and decide to move to ... current 6.005 student. This is a theme in college: as you get older, your mentors and mentees start to be your friends and your peers and stop being

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth ... . That's not to say that you can't find your home in the grey sponge, just ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  guarantee you that no matter what your interests are, you will be able to find ... ).... and I've decided to be ME (get the pun?)!! Why you might ask? Well... it ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... your advisor every semester to talk mano-a-mano about which classes to ... meetings. It's a great way to start off the week. How are your Mondays? Mine

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  always great -- use the web to get inspiration for a project that you can ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “The basketball team comes back early on December 26th to get ready for ... you want to get recruited to swim for MIT you should email the coaches ... coaches. I think recruit trips are also a really valuable experience to get

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  !"]Red Line.[/annotation] If you go, try to get there more than 15 minutes early ... . So...if you're tryna to have a summer beach experience but really don ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ended deciding to get up and wander Union Station. I have come to the ... ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to an old lady who was also getting up to stretch her legs; we had a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  well those plans were working for me.) Of course, you're welcome to drop in on your advisor at any time to discuss classes, grad school ... exactly with it on the classes needed to get there. Students who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told ... tunnels to get from Building 54 to the main academic buildings without going ... getting ready to go outside and play in the snow with Sarah when the 223

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

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... 't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  . But first I want to tell you about the most exciting part of the trip--getting ... cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  sure you need to give your real call sign” “That’s totally a real call ... to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most ... wanted to print the current W1MX logo on a PCB, but the best he could get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming/editing/etc. If you're curious, here is the Buzzfeed article I mentioned (I'm still ... working to get more artists to lecture here. (I still have a tiny bit of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  , and passion. So, choose your activities wisely and try to maintain some ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... …it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... yourself. You certainly should add MAKEblog to your RSS reader, and MAKE

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... program for teens who want to get into MIT right after middle school. The ... the harder subjects for the senior-year projects when we get to use real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  scratch. You get 20 minutes to escape the room and secure a UROP! As a part ... all of you! So, welcome to MIT ‘22s!! We can’t wait to get to know y ... great people, expand your horizon and explore all that this place has to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018