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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... different from living in a dorm. For one, you're in closer quarters, so you ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college

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

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  interviewer) in action to get the most out of this one, but having a interview ... pride: just like solving a puzzle is a way to show off your cleverness ... Conditions: Play with this for a bit, until you get the idea. Then try to win

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  times, all the rooms for the teams, permission to put a device in lobby 7 ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... to get a tour of the famous strobe lab myself (I'd never been inside ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... 't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where ... -bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something ... else. I hope this a reminder that, even when your nose is to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  various ridiculous schemes to get in, since we were sure it would be ... up with that on the spot? Well, you do get to rhyme things with your ... . . . there's rapping in this class." Being flip wasn't going to help me get in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... back in the comfort of your ger and enjoy a well-earned drink as the sun ... extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... information to come, and trusting that my gut can process it in the background

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it ... a degree in Chinese, but I have to go for another year to finish my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a ... ’t complete one cycle without getting distracted in between. Well, there was ... stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  's tough to get good outdoor flying weather in New England on a consistent ... in on your advisor at any time to discuss classes, grad school ... for health reasons -- Adam's going down to Georgia in a few weeks to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  —but getting to read the likes "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold ... corporation. Everything builds down from the Corporation, so getting to have a ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... expressed being grateful to be in a city where music was like air; it was ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me ... people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... taught by a Nobel Laureate. Freshman in 7.012 this term have the privelege

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in ... doors for a second chance to participate in this extraordinarily popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  you spend your life. Inspired by my desire to spend more time in the way ... In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  time, I didn’t really know what it meant to have a job in robotics. I ... most familiar with or have a Bachelors in, does not necessarily have to ... can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... am trying to make a solid blue cup in glassblowing practice session. I ... the past month (in another). I scramble to get out my phone and write it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk ... . like how to play a game where i try to escape from hell, and how to play ... chance, god will sometimes let me learn a thought, and i try hard to give

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024