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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  second day of recitation) "It's possible that the thing you want to call ... here, right now I want to focus on an aspect of diversity I never fully ... . Last Tuesday, on the first day of classes, Jeremy walked into the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  put on Boston. All of these rumors turned out to be false, but at the ... of the day with my ex. We set to work on [annotation note ... incredibly full and decided to walk around a bit. We went to the UPS store on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all ... , April 9 I'll be hanging around the checkout area on the second floor of ... working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... important thing is to find what you love and do it to the utmost of your ... (and occasionally even current students) saying basically the same thing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put ... to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the ... choose between being nice to my brain and body and doing well on the ... grade) to have a significant impact on your overall performance in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same. Apparently it was even worse last semester, to the point where when I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  on time without my alarm clock. So with the end to this semester, it means I'm on my way home to spend the holidays with family and friends. It ... have to work for them. This observation was prompted by the fact that

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... spots on the hockey and lacrosse teams for any other opportunity at MIT ... the gym when I don't want to and the 'freshman 15' was just an abstract

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all-expenses paid day trip to New York every February! Each year, the events of the ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  -polarized component of the pulsar's signal rotates on its way to Earth, due to the Milky ... invitation to the big party happening on the last night. More on that later ... , only to be told that the crutches weren't on the bus. Um. LIES

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  , to do research on pulsars at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory ... Virginia) to give a talk on his pulsar research. The fifth grader clutching ... writing on the board and figuring out where you're going to put everything

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  Perhaps the second most exciting time of the year (after selecting ... blogs are the most active bloggers and best make the transition to being ... blog, you may wish to start a new blog and start writing over the next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... awesome to have the president of the Alumni Association serve as our alumni donor. Below is the "grading scale" for how well our class will do on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  on the first-most-exciting email of the fall semester. watch this space."]second ... on the Internet. Due to my lack of unboxing-video know-how, I didn ... plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  that I was in! 2. Arriving at CPW and getting escorted to the second ... As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor ... second floor. You’re too busy praying for the elevator to go faster to ... !!!” It’s kind of a walk from Stata to McCormick, but McCormick is on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  Hahvahd University). Thanks to a raging downpour, the audience bordered on ... musical organization on campus, in addition to carrying out the standard ... 's time to move on to the next segment of this story . . . As many of you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  morning to cheer on my class from the outside as they walked from Kresge to ... Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... you stumbled upon some discovery that's going to revolutionize the world

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017