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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... those kids that would hide somewhere for six hours with a thick book (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  was probably quite lovely, but my stomach was too tightly knotted for me ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... remained at home for two more weeks, not returning to Cambridge until this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend ... together—or as back together as we can be until she comes home for Christmas

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... Engineering and Computer Science I'm doing two activities for this IAP. The

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... . Check it out! So Andrea thanks for sitting down with me to do this ... for what I wanted to study. In my junior year I applied to the MITES

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  around, maybe 13 out of 50 for the course 8 folks. I don't have any idea of ... .Can this include,for example,honors won in oratory in the annual English ... love. F*** the rest. (Little miss sunshine?) It's very good advice for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Well, for one thing, they are all whole numbers. For another, they ... you that =p SOOO it's T -2.5 days for all you Early Applicants! If you ... day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  . This ended well for both parties - with a PARTY! Pun totally intended ... . Here goes: Zaira ponders: What type of laptop should I get for college ... , Marilee was def using a Macbook for her info session so I know that Macs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery Hunt 2020, which are unmarked. This post will contain major spoilers for ... puzzles above and below Searching for something new The last puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been ... classes now, I need to take classes that genuinely interest me in order for ... realized that the classes were far too advanced for my feeble mind and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  partner Cory and I have been together for almost nine years now. We met in ... High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... that room at all, and finally said I could have the room just for this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  about this — call [annotation note="a service repair hotline for on ... else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be fixed. For three straight weekends in June, I went on hikes. My road

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  everyday life after playing the game for a while. I remember I had trouble ... posters for this movie called it “The game you couldn’t put down. The story ... the news, Ceri suggested I interview Fractal for the blogs. So I did

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... for the undergrad. ii. I started writing this blog in the fall, when

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  /or procrastinating. Just a few days ago, I beat my all-time record for cutting it close ... times. Luckily I’ve caught the culprits for this issue. With the simple ... [annotation note="I'll take 'How did I Survive High School for 500' Alex

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard of for MIT prefrosh to write guest blogs before CPW. Cam's situation is ... intersection of my life and MIT – which is surprisingly large for a high school

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009