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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... mob at the last assembly of every year, so without warning, music would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was ... bought my first umbrella and poncho, in the event that rain, sleet, snow ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before ... from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... will differ. Don't lose hope! bocajrs wrote, "What is the first thing an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the ... thing that dawned upon me was the concept of "average." Being average is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  pictures of my desk at off hours of the night or of the trail I traverse ... office hours, but I promise you I, like the rest of the students at MIT ... used in solving the problem. I promise you; it's actually one of the most

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and having a dozen of my friends hype me up from the front rows made me perform

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... ’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  knowledge is incredibly meaningful, too. On one of the first problem sets I ... it down. And while at the end of my first-year, I still wasn’t fully ... declare your major until the end of your first year. So it’s okay to not be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are ... Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... , but it wasn't quite up to the job when clamping to the underseat of the wheelchair. after extensive testing, a little 8.01 and the help of one of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this ... best and worst parts of the dorm.") Also bonus: word cloud compiled from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... quite honestly be the reason I got through first semester), and would

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  part of these last four years. The bloggers were one of my first ... "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the ... research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  events are dormspammed! when i was a first-year, dormspam was one of the ... 'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the ... chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  first dates. It’s a story that diverges wildly from the backstories of ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... ’ve never been romantically drawn to that kind of person—the Forbes 30 Under

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most ... [annotation note="the mathier version of physics ii - electricity and magnetism

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to ... should you expect? First, the admissions officer and the local Educational ... answer. Getting out on the road to meet you is one of our favorite times of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  's addictive, I swear), I haven't done much else in the way of vegetating. First, I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021