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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  is low enough to the ground to appear to extend forever - people on the ... ’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back-to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  :00 PM SIMFEST!: Minute To Win It Mini games + 60 seconds on the clock ... Make your way through the most puzzling of MIT’s dorms on the path to ... to the end! 9:00 PM - 3:00 AM Top of the Sponge Raise the roof /on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  in the lounge, or working on a pset, or walking to Hayden to get ... , talked to some friends. Then the rhythm, on Monday. Then Tuesday. Wednesday ... something new; every second of the day a slot I needed to fill; I wanted to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these ... the first 90 seconds. Before long, one of us (me) succumbed to our (my ... websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  on which classes you choose to take. You want to understand how the ... , it's hard to see what's not to love about the department. We've got a ... for those who aren't quite sure of what to do, I would suspect that the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... stalking that found Zendaya was directly across the river on[annotation note ... allowing students on the parts of campus where they're filming then now is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  actuators to short out. A second robot, a biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was allegedly forced to replicate "the same humiliating hopping algorithm" 200 ... first case of robot hazing on the campus. Last fall, during "Rush Week," a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... price on anything. Heh. That proved to be the perfect segue into our gift ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... type. She says that the words that come out on paper or on the screen do ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  to Copenhagen. Immediately we got on another plane to Amsterdam. The ... into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  linear algebra homework. When you go to MIT, the need to work on problem ... Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare ... Exam” on Friday morning, my challenger played the familiar “Long, Hideous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  to advocate on her behalf to the production team to work around it. I ... be, it hurts to take criticism. But in the end, I focus on what my ... committed and so beautiful on stage. I’m so thankful to the stage managers

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to ... out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... unique. We have 10 labs, 4 midterms -- each broken down to the Core section

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  -eye trips for on-site interviews. Finally got to go to the beach and visit ... myself any longer, but I want to focus on the process of working towards ... 've been so heavily goal-oriented, focused on getting through to the next

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... harder to deal with when you don’t speak their language. The challenge on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  this free time to do more work. That's not the most healthy mindset, I ... reality is that I still don't physically have enough time to do all the ... from grad school, who knows"]graduate[/annotation], I'll have the time to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and following the status quo, I was amazed to find that MIT was continually and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  back to me, it was nearing the middle of Week 3, and I was on my way to ... intensely for five seconds before the light flickered off again. I started to ... to the outlet, thinking maybe my laptop had drained its power while on

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  on the highway, or the service road next to it. Particularly when I'm in the right lane on the highway, and it suddenly tells me to "turn ... was on the highway, and the exit I was supposed to take no longer

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008