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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  many people (and I, too, was once guilty of this crime) who went to one ... college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  what I can, but remember that you’ll need some dna helicase to unzip ... and something needs to piece me back together. me: no worries, I’m on it ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours ... probably never never really needed that much time. I think it really comes ... , these 1.5 hour exams are pretty much 100% of your grade in the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor who resolves to download himself into the System after mortality

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  last February, I knew I had made a grave mistake; I knew I needed to be ... many more conversations that needed to happen on campus, and when I ... , and I found it so hard not to break character. Seeing so much of campus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which ... suburban Coach bus that will take them to work. Inspiring!) I’m interning at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  Tick list. Oomf. I need to get on that. I know I'm on top of the things that I need to be on top of, but I still worry about accidentally forgetting to ... build a really cool fort, but it's sad to see much of our work be brushed

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to ... needed to bring extra AA batteries (??), a portable phone charger (the bus ... pizza for dinner (pepperoni and [annotation note="much to Allison's dismay

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  — the path to wise, responsible citizenship — more than it does now. It is ... Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston ... about winter is going to be much more vociferous this year. fluency in a ... and all, but no. I am going to miss Retiro so much. *sigh* alcoholic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  pamphlet-creating admissions officers can't convey. MIT does its best to ... just as much as I do. They do their best to convey their impression about ... . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  extracurriculars where I spent my time. They mean so so much to me, and I don’t know ... all my friends. We need ten minutes’ notice to meet up for dinner, or a ... ’s made my transition to college so much easier. To all my friends, if you

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  disappear sometimes people tell me i need to chill and that my standards ... good at making stuff and so on. and i feel the need to be all these ... -sufficient as possible, not because i prefer it, but just in case i ever need to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... said that Foulke had flown to Birmingham, Alabama, last week to see Dr ... information, I went to ESPN's Peter Gammons, who wrote: Keith Foulke took last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ’t need to spend too much time on that. Lithium-ion batteries are ... felt like I needed a lot of background knowledge to write coherently. I ... material properties (unlike cadmium telluride), so I had much to talk about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  to dinner with my friends has been a much more productive bonding ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this semester. My method of doing this has been going out to [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many ... history is to realize that futures are products of their pasts. And one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  changed is the fact that Facebook is now delivered to a much broader ... best way for us to use Facebook pages? Groups? Does Google Plus help at ... right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  decorated in color schemes once thought to be merely theoretical outside of ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  than college does, the feeling was much less strong."]basically the first ... As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021