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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to ... options if you choose to stay on campus. The fraternities ... : * (generally) higher pay (investment banks can pay up to around $10,000 for a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... AM, would be a horrifying thought. But on this particular day, I feel ... conveniently close to a lot of things, something I grow more and more thankful of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  to get a series of them yesterday. i listened to them on my walk to ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  representing a real 3D space on paper… practiced drawing a section plan with a little person inside, as to imagine a body inhabiting a space... and ... -front space and a single wall, as shown above, and essentially have to design an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... 's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  resolution to go to a new bar and meet people every Wednesday evening, which we ... mentioned? One of the stops on that trip was to a conference in Venice to ... new life to begin.  ~~~ I am now a 2nd year PhD student. There have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  is given a certain amount of money to spend on whatever the floor wants ... bridge to Boston. Also, like many dorms on dorm row, you can get a great ... , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday ... ordinary. Had a great time with Joe; hope to see him again next year

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  to write a humanities paper on fMRI usage in popular media ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  and listening to all the songs on repeat This was a masterpiece. The ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... absolutely painful to write.  Okay, let’s backtrack a bit. We aren’t writing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  to any student on campus and ask for help, and there’s a good chance ... playlists. You know, vibes and all that. A year ago we expanded on the idea ... asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in ... supposed to vote on slogans advertising a party thrown by Hillel, but I do ... The Princess Bride, which I've made reference to about a dozen times on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC ... to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  a message if you're going to be there!) to cheer on Team 97 ... ridiculous estimations. For example, on a recent pset we were asked to ... dangerous. Inviting anyone literate enoug to read a sticker on your shirt to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  . Recently, I've decided to take on a second major (in Comparative Media ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The ... on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this ... the MIT Infinite Fashion Magazine A lot of friends on some strange

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... right before your alarm goes off, or you put on that favorite sweatshirt

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008