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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  in that. Thankfully, you do have a wonderful resource available to you ... and staff who have agreed to take in a group of wide-eyed new cadets ... 'm actually here to talk about, albeit in my characteristically verbose but

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  's acronymal third letter! At MIT, you get to choose your own T. Most students ... Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  produce a better output, compared to the average person working in that ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn ... bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... ." That's SO WEIRD. You don't get to say things like that unless you're an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  5 We woke up starving and went to get brunch in Condesa around Parque ... : This is a very very very privileged epiphany to have, but being in a ... applies to immigrants who are living in a country where they are fluent in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  haven't talked to in a while, and he asked, "so what have you been up to ... the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  said in order to get this kid to make this face. Also there was the ... , had a pretzel bar. I leave you now to your jealousy, knowing that I ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that ... , when you come to MIT, get a UROP yourself and experience the wonders of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... undergraduate hackathon. a hackathon is where people get 24 hours to build a ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  terrible puns…) 5. Finally, A big shout-out to DJ JR, for all his help in ... , ready to watch some ghosts. We chilled in the destination location for a ... A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  sociologist Professor Yoshimi Shunya to do a sequel course, which resulted in ... to address student and faculty concerns in our changed society. In a ... , short previews and links to videos of the talks: Anette “Peko” Hosoi

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  your cross stitching gear and learn how to cross stitch a cool custom MIT ... 'm actually getting a paycheck and have health insurance. Difference 2 - I am in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  stuff back to Ohio. I stayed in Ohio for a week and a half, then my ... 's hard to accomplish anything significant in a lab during the summer, and ... of Plymouth several times and going to a water park in New Hampshire

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... , sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to ... ’m going to love designing toys, experiments, problems without a doubt. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen ... the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a ... ). Walk in with a smile plastered on, and ensure that your voice is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  ). For your benefit, so you can all get to know each other in one central ... Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working ... 'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii ... the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010