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• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  knit! Well, not me. The people on my floor. I used to bake a bit in the ... to be a technical director for the IAP show which is going to happen in ... As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... will be posted in mid-January to your application portal. We have posted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn ... asked my friend in NYC to go into my room and drop off the passport at a ... countries in seven days. As such, there was a lot of coordination that had to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their ... reading in a local cafe to taking a train over to another country. They can ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  I've been living in New York City, in a cruft house named LoTaD, short ... months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and Victor '23 moved in to replace him. Brian and I spent a lot of time

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and, like, get your PhD in doing that. 6. Why bother to photograph and ... inter-floor activity fund whereby the entire dorm gets $3000 a term to ... summarize it in a manner that is "understandable to everyone." Anyway, all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  of different interests. You're trying to build a visual identity for ... wanted or needed to sketch out a design in the future to better visualize ... giving your brain a rest while sharpening your focus. Setting up shop in a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... , with a short break in the middle. It’s the first time since March 2020

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  as well be on fire. When you're used to life in Hell, sometimes a ... realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in 4-159 and somehow I need to find a stapler in the next five minutes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short ... more technical explanationIf you’re like me a few months ago, the short ... "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... return to MIT. I'm living in Baker this summer, in a room with really poor ... week or so (before I bought a fan, finally), the room would get up to 95

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band ... the world. Especially when you have to turn pages while wearing them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  sophomore year to realize that I'm a woman in STEM. When I realized this ... reflected in movement on stage) Being trans can lead to a thousand double ... Cormick, but naïve-first-year-me decided to dig deeper. I sent out a Google form

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  major. This is a good way to still get started on your major requirements ... 't like writing all that much. That's even more of a reason to get your ... use as a good template for your schedule. If you don't know what to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a ... a presence about her that people are drawn to," he said. The Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  freshman class get up and give a short overview of the class and who ought to ... have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a ... ="67527" /] Also this class has a dog in it that belongs to the professor and it ... thought it might be nice to get a refresher and also there was free food

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  noticed that the first link I posted in this blog entry was a link to a ... to a site which contains infringing content. In other words, not only ... provides or offers a product or service that could be used to get around DNS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012