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• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  freshman, the main issue you’ll run into will probably be finding professors ... -Douglas Fund (not open to freshmen, except those with sophomore standing in the ... would be more inclined to think about casually; I’m hopeful about the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  , and if I don't, I will be disappointed in myself the most. Far from ... , the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to the present day: this story was emailed along to me by Ellen Stordy, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  for lack of better things to do. michael from 2E is part of the dev team at sipb that's working on the new-and-hopefully-improved-but-probably-not ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  else has to be inferred. Yet the subtle pressures the story applies to us ... letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  , but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They ... the same time. I didn't want to take too many pictures, lest I be ... taught me how to magnify images like that at the booth. (not really) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  leaves scattered on the raised ground—they did not have far to fall, from ... the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... opportunity to cross-register at Harvard (or Wellesley, or MassArt, or the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... jackets.  So the biggest reason why I've become such a sucker for fall? I ... have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I ... scrapple. Strangely enough, I did develop a slight revulsion to the foods ... 't remember why I liked the teriyaki chicken so much. I usually only take lunch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not ... tagged along because why not? The entire experience was punctuated by the ... homework, I obliged with a final exam. One of the most surprising things to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  be helpful to the freshmen in my wing. I’m supposed to be a go-to for ... . Learning the worm is the best way to spend 1.5 hours ever. I’m probably not ... . Time used to be so leaden, with the brutal impassivity of cold marble. It’s so

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ... my original bus to Kyoto, and despite the motto I'm currently trying to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad ... So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  the wind will blow through it, not billow up behind. It is colorfast and ... also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... 2000 (I missed the lecture). Not too long afterward, Adams passed away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  in Maseeh. Note: This is not meant to be the definitive guide to ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or ... work on GIR psets together, Maseeh is the place to be. Here is the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  World Tour per se, but I will be hitting the metropolitan New York City ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  ) If somebody replies, wait patiently for them to be done using the ... polite and everybody gets along alright. You may not be used to having to ... for all the dorm bathrooms (which I'll leave to blog readers to describe

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the ... move on to the next. I took one look at the question and just burst out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  you would like to leave and return we will be taking shelter in the ... me away from the Boston Pops, but YOU WILL NOT WIN COPPERS! NEVER! The ... be able to hear the music too, we could hear the sound checks this

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... is supposed to be fun; don't let the application get you even before ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006