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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech ... at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... few weeks ago, my a cappella group sang "senior singouts" at our final

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  at MIT, here at my fraternity, here at the Skating Club of Boston ... experience, and where to go from here. At last, I could rest, daydream, binge ... . Back to work. Back to the grind. At least no more psets or exams for the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... her final Jeopardy answer. At this point in the game, she'd been ... professors at Emory University studying neuroscience. They immigrated to the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... people at MIT -- you might also find recovery harder than training. What I ... to start practicing that as well. You'll need it at MIT, and, as it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday ... airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop ... found more fun to sail in than the FJ’s we sail at MIT. (^Also PC to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking ... classes you take doesn't determine you at all. Above, below, or exactly four ... classes per semester. My entire time at MIT I've been fighting off this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  standing culture that our ancestors may have had at any point of time. We ... I entered my research lab at Emory University I was very quickly ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... ) peace with femininity, or at least I understand better why expressions of ... /beauty) were so embarrassing to me at times. This was mostly thanks to CMS.307

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 John and Nellie Wooden Institute at Miami University. For four days, two

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  undocumented students at MIT. Because DACA (like immigration enforcement overall ... study at MIT, particularly as the Regular Action deadline approaches. The ... (S^3), is an advisor for all DACA students at MIT and works closely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  year at MIT. But wait, don’t enter yet; you still have about a week ... whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... good ol’ fashioned car bash? At this rush event, people from all walks of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  that recruits teams of writers at thousands of different universities. I ... first-generation at MIT, and this one's about being a student ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... fireworks shows, a dozen at a time if you park under a mountain, each one ... silence manifests itself as loud static at night in my city-trained ears

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy ... ’re going to be at MIT over the summer. Kendall Square Market Location: 350

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See the #1 Boston Adventure at the Boston International Antiquarian ... suits. Not particularly interested in huge games at the time, we headed ... lounges back at the MIT home. Here are some examples of the awesome Black

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... incunabula at the BIABF (see below). Foxing refers to “rust colored spots which ... . For valuable volumes, they started at $500, increased to $2,500, $7

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  mean what most people call “night,” some “morning.” Our lounges awaken at ... . Occasionally, the midnight lounge is quiet. Some stare at the wall, relaxing ... . Dancing on tables permitted. At the start of the semester, lounge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... the team. So here goes: my stab at a success profile, heavily informed by my experience in project classes, UPOP, and at companies.  Whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... , and subsequent soar into brilliant adulthood?). Who knows at this point ... Phone note I'm typing into, I now see that, at this point, the best option is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  boarding the bus back to Boston.     Last year we saw Rusalka at ... year, we saw Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle at the opera, Les Miserables on Broadway, and a million great things at the Mo

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015