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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... on Third East. In the lottery, you are assigned a room in which you ... a space on East Campus' strip of paper spanning the entire length of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... figured I'd pick it up. I took it on an eight-hour train ride back home ... that everybody should probably read it on some rainy afternoon or bus

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  , they’ve become my closest friends, my shoulders to cry on, my ... . Your personality doesn’t solely depend on being smart. And that pushes ... . I struggle with my identity on a day to day basis. Racially and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... ’t too important, and I ranked it first on my housing intent form when it ... create our own culture.” - Lisa “I don't even live on M3! It was a twist

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  others liked are at the very bottom. It really depends on the person, but ... kids stuffed in a New Vassar study room, being on campus during my first ... : Ancient Perspectives on the Good Life (CC.110) → Rank C This was a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  was the first fly-in she applied to.  Daymé had her heart set on MIT ... in STEM and chemical engineering, MIT was on her list of schools to ... “sitting in the basement with glasses on in the dark,” and she would not know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  that we have [annotation note="emphasis on (?)"]kind of (?)[/annotation ... have been reflecting on what skills related to animation we’ve learned at ... cross-registration, watching youtube videos on our free time, or creating

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... ever taking extra time to do the problem again on my own. I ended up no ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  xx on some test. Should I retake it? Probably not, especially if the ... got less than 7xx on some test. Should I retake it? Plenty of people get ... whichever test you feel you'll do best on. Or take both - we'll use whichever

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  planet as I put the sticky stars on my ceiling. Then I took AP Physics C ... little noble and important. I wasn't super sold on the engineering part ... those psets for hours on end with no gratification. The crisis continues

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  that. Every week, I’d mentally dread the labs, given that they were on a ... "]""technically""[/annotation] "graded on a curve", there was no such thing in 6.191. (12 units) 18 ... -only approach, NEET provides students with hands-on, project-based learning in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  helloooooooo blogosphere! so i wasn't planning on posting this week ... reading everyone's blogs has brought me so much joy, and i'm sitting here on ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , and I would pick one and work on it. With the endless opportunities and ... my mind theory and impact existed on two sides of an impenetrable ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  beginning on campus [annotation note="I am literally on a plane headed back to ... me, and I was really worried that I would miss out on the closeness of ... 're not allowed to steal my friends, so I want to focus on something much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  ; 13.25 Hasses  I love humanities classes! When I was deciding on ... dropped on the week of Drop Date I dropped 2.001/Mechanics and Materials and 6.008 on the week of drop date. 2.001 was honestly the roughest

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  just a silly little baby that [annotation note="When I showed up on the ... lessons about the police on campus and resources available, and random ... =" LESSSS GOOO RED TEAM!!!!!!!!!1!11!"]Red Sox Tickets.[/annotation] Today, on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  idea of what i wanted to learn or focus on, and part of it was me ... (organic chemistry) was being graded on pass-fail with massive curves. when i ... nine months straight. back when i was at home i would go on runs every

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  above into a wine glass on the ground holding two ends of cable, thus ... even after two watches. with everything going on—the music, the sound of ... equipment before class. the Stata R&D pub, on the other hand, was an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... was sick, and passed out on my futon.   Growing up, I was used to ... tattoo. I read some articles on tattoo care, and the tl;dr was not to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  ,[/annotation] I was accepted into MIT early action. I cried on the phone with my counselor as I told her the news, sitting on the floor and feeling the world ... real, three-dimensional person—a person I can imagine on our campus. It

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022