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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  shutting it. The thing that really, really, really ticks me off (to use the ... to begin with), and when I talked to him about it, he said that he ... a ring for 1000 people can't be easy, and no one is ever going to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment didn’t work, but rather if you understand why it didn’t work. It's not uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  okay, so, sophomore fall was brutal. it went from manageable to ... class I initially thought was easy. it took me literally ten minutes to do ... practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  how it grows and can't wait to see what Infinite does next! for more ... event. I think it's great that the Gala enabled more students to have ... to explore the art gallery, which featured independent works from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  telling me to schedule a makeup exam. But it’s more like this is not exactly ... …But I never thought it would be so easy to practically fail. Almost ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  meetings or classes. That said, it's easy to be that stranger that just uses ... people are ready to take it on without the training wheels. Both of my ... (Independent Activities Period--in essence, MIT gives us the month of January to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to ... .) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE ... purchasing it. The mystery bag was a door to another world. I later came to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  managed to get my hands on it once again. And, because my favorite thing to do on here is reminisce, I thought it’d be nice to share snippets from ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of ... Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  that story. Suffice it to say that declaring a history major on top of ... final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to ... it's always pretty awesome to see what people come up with :) We

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  friend and we stress-laughed through it together. to hear another talk ... the notes app on my phone begs to differ. maybe it was a fear of failure ... , writing. it took me a bunch of bad drafts to get here (nobody wants to see

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  , always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... to take either the 2" (50.8 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm) wide rolls, one can ... 3 to 4 times its original length before breaking. That is what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing ... . For me, it was a good decision to get a handle on the purely mechanical ... learn how to design a research project and see it through, and that is

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  will be sleepless nights. There will be weeks you have to choose which work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will ... lot of work, to relax sometimes and hang out with your friends. It makes

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... York, and yes it was my fault but I’m still going to hate on the food I ... flavourful. considering that they’re sandwiches it can’t be that complex but i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... having to park it on a dirty latrine). Maybe we took the whole maturing ... stuff in your ice cream. And then see what happens to you after you eat it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be ... this year), decided that it would be fun to put a wooden rail between two ... go, this pic has lots of people in it. From left to right, we have Milo

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005