Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  . **** On one side of MIT lies Boston, a place of opportunity and beautifully ... . The courtyard is now full of life. The sun reflects off the silver spray paint on ... of Baker House on Drop Date. Noam Chomsky is coming to speak again. And

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  a plant, I need a certain amount of sunshine to thrive. And on sunny ... study area in Hayden Library, and it's one of the only places on campus I ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  of a frame on a white board and then cut some scrap wood in the shop to ... lot more water than I was willing to actually have sitting on my desk ... a 20 gallon fish tank inside of your dorm room"] and more than what

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects, the last round of psets, and other hecticness. By the end of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003 ... Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  , views of the harbor Teuscher -- chocolates on Newbury Top of the Hub ... , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of ... relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions ... Pushiness of Parents, and Other Admissions Tales By ALVIN P. SANOFF While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank ... applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  catching up on a lot of science fiction shows that I've been saving up during ... of episode 1 is all you need to be hooked on. Trailer: https ... (on ep7 of s2) Concepts/Themes: Reality, Life, Death, Dreams, Greek

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  of other spots). 2. On the section where you list AP courses, can I ... information soon: There's a pretty big stack of folders on my dining room table ... required amount of SAT2s and don't do well on it, do we have to tell MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... and Doing Things on colored post-card papers, and a curated set of ... myself sobbing on the floor. the dream of being someone loved & known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a ... savory parts of my memory, I can recall those nights of crying to my mom on ... only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  on this weird mesh of humanities and engineering and I've never been happier. While I'm not psetting in front of the Stud or lounging on the ... Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  that MIT, as an institution, is working hard on behalf of our current and ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of ... students. Some of these questions have come from citizens of the countries

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  . 2. 2. Record-Breaking: On the right of our suite-board you will see a ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  expert, you might be calling shenanigans due to the lack of paint on the ... rounds of paint to turn them into walking canvases. In fact, on some ... that little piece of hell known as dead week. Yes, dead week. How aptly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011