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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  . Making things work. Thursday afternoon: Swing by lab to finish up some ... geeks out as I visit the National Gallery of London to see works by Saurat ... , to fashion designers, to FIRST's Dean Kamen. Quick highlights: When

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... to take a quick break from studying for physics to finish up this post ... heard that there were going to be more air rounds though, so I asked

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  articles from over the past year can be found by search. ... only be permitted to sign up for the 14-meal-per-week plan ($3,800/year ... cannot be allocated to seven dinners and three breakfasts). Further, as is

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain ... sized loft, before quickly realizing that my room is way too small and the ... and labor commitment to build my own loft, and reasoned it'd be easier

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year ... particular department is the best way to figure out whether you really fit ... night, I can be found standing by the bathrooms with my face pressed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... direction at one point led to me being lost and cold on an overpass above the ... more beautiful than parking lot trees have the right to be. From

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  us. It is the best way for us to be able to evaluate you fairly ... have anything you wish to be considered to us by the deadline or as close ... should I be doing. I am for "regular decision" by the way." And Casey wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... am no longer going to be a college athlete, I think I'd better start ... need for classes, then use a book search engine like this one to see how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... incredibly smooth; it’s going to be hard for the second leg to live up to this ... more productive than I had expected it to be. My main intention was just

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  Here’s what it means to us to [annotation note="bee?"]be[/annotation] an ... ’s a pretty good gig, to be honest. This application was designed mostly by student bloggers to help ask and answer the kinds of questions that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... and personally, and it is hard in ways that are difficult to discuss ... extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  March 18th. By the way Matt, does that date apply to international ... read by physics faculty...Will they ever have time to read all that ... to be sent this year? On March 14, 2005?" Elliot Lee asked, "Is there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my ... ! it’s 10-1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and although classes go by quickly ... —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  . :)So, I officially arrived at MIT on Thursday, only to be greeted by my uber-awesome host Christina, who happened to be working at the ... two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  through sheer enthusiasm alone.  To be honest, I kind of miss the PSet ... Mechanics and Geotechnical Design Apparently, this class and 1.035 used to be ... this class more than I expected, to be honest. There are just 4 people in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  apply to several places, including Microsoft. To be honest, I was pretty ... motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... bias in GPT-3 and other language models. Final thoughts I used to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  plan an achievable timeline for what needed to be done when, and by whom ... when I ask a question, it is not greeted by silence? I'd like to be able ... is part of the way to become a better leader. That, too, could be wrong

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to ... ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... attitude. I was going to be more positive and open and I was going to try ... group first semester. I was so happy to be around people that I liked and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019