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• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  and that it was time to go back to sleep. I told Alice that I had to go to bed; "you're a sweet girl," she said, "I'll see you next time! I ... ? It's time for your shift." I pulled my sweatpants back over my legs (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on ... -sized stuffed panther doll in the middle. To this day, I have no idea what was up ... . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  you.) Then it was time to start (START!!!) packing. I frantically threw ... , Raphael was struck by the idea that we didn't have to wait until morning to ... amount of traffic we'd have to deal with. Fine. Finished packing, returned

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  decided it was time to get the show on the road. We started our off ... ever more than an excuse to have fun. I'll let the pictures [mostly ... given himself the nickname "el Che", sent the following to the dorm email

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your graduation requirements by spending time abroad. One such class is 11.027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach ... cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by ... example, the New York Times called Toscanini's "the best ice cream in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  to put in as much time and effort as I would have liked into each one ... have such great concentration skills. We used to be a varsity sport at ... great, and they have helped me so much with improving over time. I went

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  difficult since I'd have very little to say about keys and chord progressions. Over time, though, I gained a lot of nuance and became able to ... music with more trained ears. It helped a lot to have an open format for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  music choices! That is all. Time to study for my test. ... You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous ... 's just nice to have a visual. I do wish that I had gotten to take classes ... committing a lot of time to my research. I'm sort of a boomer and this is the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... numbers multiple times. But what if your comparator was broken? What if it ... , your comparator would say “2 is smaller than 3”, and 20 times out of 100

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  subjects that lend themselves well to asking specific questions that have ... . It’ll never give you the answer itself, and you still have to hand in a ... , if you can manage to share your misery with enough friends at the same

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  investigation. I can, however, take a guess: it’s having 24/7 access to some of ... extracurriculars where I spent my time. They mean so so much to me, and I don’t know ... want to clarify that this is not a monolithic experience. I have a lot

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  are incredibly difficult, because you have to wait for a herd of bikes ... doesn’t seem to happen often, and the freedom of being able to leave your ... Copenhell, a metal fest, for four days, during which I didn’t really have time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... to as simply 'Technology.' "]Technology[/annotation] to flourish ... here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  Git, a version control system that helps to coordinate/collaborate your ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... one-hour lesson and then you're free to ski or snowboard for the rest of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email ... unsuccessful, my advice to you is to make your next 2-3 years at your current ... , we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... Omakase." By the time I got back to San Francisco, it was peak fig season ... lecture halls to Athena clusters, 15” Dell Inspirons clutched tightly under

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  fortunate to have more time over my gap year to share so many memorable ... ’m super happy that for the first time ever, I was able to have a semester in ... agree with their responses. My dad said, “You’re more positive, you have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  "), touristy ("Have your parents take you to the North End"), or non ... poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005