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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  the next fourteen days, I have two midterms, three group projects and a ... and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get through a big chunk of my ever-growing list of blog posts to write. Today, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three college fairs in New York City this past week. It was a fun week! First was ... classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  Before we begin, a word of warning. This blog post is not representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... -front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  mean you should take your own notes, but a TA is actually taking all the ... this, a lot of the stuff I feel like I should takes notes on are ... of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive ... vulnerability and sharing that part of yourself. College admissions is a volatile ... same people that attend that school, almost hypocritical in a way. What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I ... professions that are far removed from STEM. My mother has a small business doing tax and accounting, and she served a bunch of other small businesses in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  I spent this summer in a relatively “chill” state. My UROP that I did ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I ... comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of ... fellowships, with families at home and a mindset of just getting through the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  share his experiences and thoughts on a variety of topics. He had a great ... declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an extravagant event, and stages a lavish delivery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent ... up. A woman across the aisle from me DID throw up: whether from terror ... sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  [by Kathy '09] Hi guys! I'm here to talk about "life as a biochemist ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... lecture is thermo & kinetics (5.60). This's actually a really interesting

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... examine Mills first. Mills is a student who is defined by the world in which

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant ... mathematical maturity, he often gives off the dignified vibes of a tweedy

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to meet a lot of extraordinarily cool people, like Kat '10. She's got very good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  this year (aside from Mystery Hunt), I took a couple breaks from reading ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and community members take classes on such silly but important topics as Giving a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a ... dining is not like that bad and I had a 60 meal plan last semester"]compulsory meal plan friends,[/annotation] you’ll have to wait. I ate a LOT of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not, sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... 're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  . Hope you spent yesterday in great company! Wishing you a long summer.

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013