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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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. '26
  • 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  ’s all fine and good, Keri, but what does this have to do with anything at ... to be informed of this. You do, however, need to know about my ... The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care ... To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan   What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  taking as much time as needed to get the job done right.   Of those 33 ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  . I now walked back through streets that were once unknown to me, and I ... once again saw that group that reminded me so much of my family. I ... outdoorsy areas to visit around New England. Here is the first one I completed

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?"   I'm glad you asked!  As a lifelong Californian before I went to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015