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• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  closest friends is more fun than I could've imagined. We're all equal ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... love it!! Our large backyard area is really conducive to doing strenuous

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... semester I realized how precarious it is to strike a balance between being a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it's already been two years since ours! But CPW is honestly just as fun for undergrads here as it is for pre-frosh, so we are all just as hyped as you are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes you enjoy? My schedule this semester is half Aero/Astro and half Comparative Media Studies (CMS): 16.35 is "Real-Time Systems and Software

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  students. Note, however, that BB&B is not the easiest destination from ... suggested boat test (which involves treading water for 10 minutes and is ... : “Technically, the glass is always full.” -- a casual wardrobe. This is optional

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  woman called out: “Please, will you help us? We need somebody who is very strong!” Building 14 is shaped like a square and has a square courtyard ... unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  more that we haven't found yet. This is Revenge for yesterday. There was ... . The company is one of the big plusses of a summer research program. On-campus research opportunities abound, but the company is largely the same company

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  message of love! Is Madeline here?”—Madeline raised her hand—“Would you like ... that Professor Cheeseman is an absolutely fantastic person. His lab is ... him a small red bag containing what I assume is candy, said, “Happy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  like this. When it's wet, warm, and kind of dark, when the forecast is ... being completely okay is pretty recent. The last few months were rough. I ... science at math is flimsy at best. I slept eight or nine hours a night in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  golf balls. (As of today, that is still the extent of my chemical ... Educational Counselor, a recent graduate who is currently enjoying sunny Berkeley: The number one thing is to be yourself. Take it seriously, but not

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - wow, this is the last MIT orientation I'll ever see, this is the last ... CPW), this is the last set of FPOPs I'll watch take place, the last year ... class, as my professor (Srini Devadas) said during the first lecture, is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  that mesmerized me: Tristan+Isolde, which is similar to Romeo & ... overarching politics, although the former is on a grander scale. Turns out one ... became an Arts Scholar. This program’s mission is as follows: to foster an

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... class in high school! This… is unimaginable, what else would I be?? I got

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , directed by Robert Lepage. Here is some background, so you understand why I am so excited. Rheingold is the first opera (Wagner called it the ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  IAP has finally started, so that means my grocery bill is much larger ... , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name ... example, I have no idea what this is called. I honestly don’t because my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  So, MIT is hard. I figured this out after I noticed that I’ve stayed ... tomorrow, rather than writing this blog post. The thing is, in high school ... that, I think, is the difference: there are so few tests at MIT that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... Katherine Hepburn is my favorite actress, this is big. Potentially even dim ... Humphrey Bogart. She also apparently made one killer brownie, which is the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  Ann Curry is my idol. This NBC reporter is somehow able to balance an ... me is the fact that the granddaughter of a Japanese rice farmer can fit so well within a career that is still considered to be male

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  most important of which is the Great Court. That's the place I head ... ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a ... alive as we put it together and that part, too, is like your applications

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010