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• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... getting in,[/annotation] and when we got to the courtyard we found that the ... 'll be pursuing a Master's at MIT, which means I need a place to stay in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  all weekend and getting lost in the tunnels trying to get to a far ... to grieve. In the grand scheme of COVID-19 impacts, missing a year of ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  've never found that a convincing reason to get more exercise, because I keep ... pain in one of my molars, which was apparently due to a bacterial ... our check-ins. And it's fine. Most nights I get between seven to nine

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  . Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the ... Astley 4. If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai 5. Somebody to Love by Justin ... On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances ... wristwatch time from A to B is minimized." 3:01pm "Metrics in general ... Maisonette I went to put my laundry in the dryer, checked my mail, and found a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... learned in the previous units. After I finished the test, I wandered to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... had the opportunity to try to bust the Archimedes Death Ray myth. So a

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... a bit and then I go back to being a floater. I was a floater in high

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ... committed to MIT in late April, I feared being sucked into a world of constant ... , no, I’m not shipping a package to Pennsylvania, but to my dorm in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT ... you can be a part. Sincerely, Kirk Kolenbrander Senior Advisor to the ... invited to have lunch, there was clearly a 100% chance that there would be a

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... thought it would be a good time to finally try some real cooking. April

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  opportunities to learn about and experience a multitude of things. To complement ... highlight events that you are excited about. We want to know about your ... through your eyes. To put it simply, we want MIT students to help us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  have to admit, the minibus experience takes a little getting used to. The ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... classmates a unique chance to gain valuable research experience and insight ... a few interviews and lab tours, I was offered a position in the Chen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... impossible to get a flash photo of me with my eyes open. This was the fourth ... birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A ... conservatories, she has a perfect record at MIT in advanced courses across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  cantaloupe. As a California native, I long to see a berry every once in a ... artwork above your bed, taking a deep breath, and using all those lemons to ... Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of the most exciting things about being a student at MIT. The flagship MIT student research program is UROP. When you do a UROP, you find a professor