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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  ever needed to hear. All I had ever wanted to feel was some validation ... is no doubt that this dorm means so much to its residents and house ... handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  only what I need to do tomorrow. I don’t have too much bandwidth to stay ... class I need to run, an unfinished group project, a sad friend, an ... I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT consider legacy?

  MIT doesn't consider legacy or alumni relations in our admissions process. If you'd like to read more about this policy, check out the blog Just to Be Clear: We Don't Do Legacy.
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  pretty generic birch forest and there wasn’t much to see. if i wanted to ... binary electrical signals—bits—you need to represent numbers. so you need ... . you’ll need to move faster if you want to be able to move. the farther

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all ... .4100 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Oof, I took this class because I needed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  disarray for two weeks, but we decided to move its furniture around once we ... for me. Having a desk is a game-changer, though—there's so much space to ... storage locker we'd used to hold things from our previous apartment. It was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... left was to make the sprint from Maseeh Hall to the Student Center to use ... has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  shiny medal, which he forced me to wear the rest of the weekend (does this ... . Shen asked about the swim test (which I really need to get around to ... fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  the axolotl does not metamorphose, its cells are capable of reverting to ... of world biodiversity does not yet amount to one. However, the same ... much broader scale. Cutting down our contributions to habitat destruction

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of ... MIT, handled safety precautions during Covid-19 while still having fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  ®). Here's the scoop - it's not sent out by admissions, rather, it's handled ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can tell you... 1) They're going to start mailing them in the next few days

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  gotten this, though, to spend so much time in Russia in general. It ... identity, and I needed to experience it like this – mundane, first-hand, by ... asking myself why I would subject myself to so much math anyway. But taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer an online degree?

  MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning.
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  PSETs on time and study for my exams. Knowing I need to do something yet ... not enough to tank a missed PSET. Although I need around a 37.5 to pass ... other people, much less study for quizzes and tests. I don't know how to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply ... caring. My first month here, I once woke up late and didn't have time to ... to be so much material for the lapel that it might just be a waterfall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise ... reform debate prior to this summer (and I'm still learning). Growing up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a ... the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  way, about proving, just as much to myself as to others, that I am ... care so much about this sense of independence, but suffice it to say that ... is also a curse. In these moments, I need someone to catch me as I fall

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... love working there so much! I was going to take off work, but it really does make me feel better. So I went to work, I felt better, and I left

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014