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• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to make that up the next morning at 8 a.m. i hadn't studied nearly enough

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... again, only better, because now you have all your stuff here, can do laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  fine cj: it doesn't feel like i'm doing fine wayne: you know i took a ... supposed to balance when you have a foot up wayne: well how do you balance ... much. i feel fine wayne: yeah that wasn't a bad fall cj: also do your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even ... Things I Love About MIT (or at least it would be, if such a list actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You ... using mass-production and assembly methods to produce a product in ... for several days back to back was senior year of high school when a few

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  that are not showing on MyMIT. Do not send a second copy of any document ... calls. Many of us who read applications are taking a little break and ... the January 1 deadline may still have a few questions. So let

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of ... doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  going through the syllabus and a couple minutes doing introductions, we ... wouldn't have to do it through a screen! i won't have to be alone anymore ... , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  happens? This is something I care about a lot and really want to do with my ... .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  (where you do need a master's to enter a PhD program). Actually, the only ... . This is just par for the course today. Argh. The last entry I wrote was a lot longer (and probably a lot funnier) than this, but it is now over an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program ... , do I love it enough to sacrifice a healthy work-life balance and a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered ... a million different corners of the world. Personally, I think we

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  Once, a man whom we can only assume must have been truly desperate responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement, "Call for a good time." He showed up at the requested meeting place, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  something. So she pulled him aside, at a house party I think, and said, "Do ... , beautiful years of my youth, a "4-year party", my boyfriend called it ("You do ... Part I: Academics   "You do know that MIT is unlike almost any

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  don't do that. But it still gets to you after a while. Sometimes it ... Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math began to nudge me more often. I wondered if I was doing it purely out of ego and stubbornness and not because I actually wanted to. I didn't do a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research, travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010