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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one after living here for three years). She took me to the Maisonette, then ... written for Frederick the Great, who CPE worked for. We listened to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  life goes on. But you don’t have to believe in all that right now. It ... ’t need other people to recognize your worth for it to exist. And that is ... ’ve stumbled and fallen. Of course, it can take some time for things to really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  ’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination ... .) Helpful advice from my fellow bloggers: Bryan on why he chose to be 2A ... for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  . Course 6-2. I registered for, among other things, 6.01 (intro to EECS). I ... that I was proud to have worked on, nothing more. (But aero/astro is cool ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  interesting project to show for it, compared to how unfulfilling it is to work ... absolutely no motivation or intentions to study for the other ASEs whatsoever ... being a positive thing for me in the long run. What are you working on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 ... mimic on campus since students no longer have access to kitchen spaces due ... 's really interesting and was a great way to kick off the FLC's focus on COVID

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how ... can only hope it's the same for orgo?) < finishes long rant on ... know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  want to be; more on the method to the madness, later, probably ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  that the walk to the supermarket is 40% slipping on ice and 60% slipping ... like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  So Facebook has this interesting application that lets you display on ... sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  .014: Calculus (single-variable) with Theory. Join me on a journey to 18-014 and ... Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  for a long time. i started to, hold on to your hats, like that random ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other ... dorm, went to advising meetings and chose classes for the first semester

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... reflecting on the class we just admitted and feeling incredible about it. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... the building with the red lights directly to the right of the Prudential

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... room, MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) shows movies every weekend for ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... Floderer gave a talk and a workshop to a packed auditorium on how to crumple ... . :) Like in high school, I was happy to receive course credit for something I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... and the administration) have asked for people to tell them before ... usually let them roam the halls all day, with their doors ajar to allow for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006