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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  precious, and no one really does have time to read 2,500-plus entries ... needed to know but didn't know how to ask. Paul: Top Ten Common ... . Residential Life Jessie: "Why does my kid have to move again?" An introduction

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  need to look at some other factors in choosing your school. D: Okay, so ... ! Q: Well, that certainly wouldn’t be a bad choice, but you need to ... life, and needs. Just because her college is a good fit for her, does not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  others, if you need to catch up. Naturally, being me, I thought I didn ... really not wanting to do it. But I have a handle on my infatuation now. It ... routinely have to deal with much, much worse, and keep going anyway. I

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  much can change in just one week. It took just a minute or two for me to ... ). I'm now sitting at home, trying to relax but not quite, because there is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  lunch about once a month to catch up on things, Jake lives down the hall ... know that it is hard to decide which ones to go to, but once you come here you will be able to pick and choose and try to fit as much as you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  need some time to get accustomed to a new atmosphere, but over time, I ... difference when compared to my much larger Chemistry class. With only about 6 ... due to it being a much larger class, which is compounded by our virtual

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  . Weekend Adventures! Once in a while ESG funds Weekend Adventures to various ... Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes ... , allow you to avoid the negative sides of GIRs and go through your whole

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  write back, “Thanks, Becky! It's so nice to make human communication once ... to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a ... approximation that was much, much smaller than what I consider to be a kosher

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... does this sticking-together force that we can't see come from? To answer ... rocks work, and the words I'd need to explain them are really big and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  -fry. 5. Once chicken skin begins to change color/aroma begins to develop ... rice. 9. Wash rice once or twice with cold water, and add 1.5 to 2 times ... 've learned that I'm okay at biology, but yes, it does suck to be a premed at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  - though I'll admit to not having invested that much time and energy into ... same way, but I feel a need to caution you all the same. Thus, my search ... I'm a small-time, not very experienced foodie - but I'd like to think

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to questions, so gold stars to them! I'll repost the questions and answers here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  4-159 and somehow I need to find a stapler in the next five minutes ... , you actually expect MIT kids to remember things that aren't numbered ... features include an über-convenient café, an Athena computer cluster (not to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 ... worth to someone else, but I'm not sure that we need to do that with ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  was way too much to handle, especially because my course load was so ... 't, well all you need to know is that he's this amazing physics professor ... much to try different restaurants in Boston... but this summer, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , i didn't spend much time considering it. i didn't want to live in ... to meet people and check out their events. i'm a junior and a transfer ... give to forming new friendships. given that EC is a dorm with so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  visit every once in a while—you know, to catch up with the people I hold ... in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small-town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  really would not be much of an issue to take an additional english course ... /supervisor. 2. Sometimes, it does make sense to lump similar activities into a ... . Often, the story of your research involvement is much more interesting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  mass transfer problem and then go on to the rest of physics. No DDR or ... need to get back into shape, that's one of my goals, haven't been exercising much at all... treadmills work wonders, it would be a dream to run

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to hold so much life at once. It can be the kind of quiet that invites ... much from the lessons of the program. I needed to know that I am the only one responsible for my own growth as a leader, and I need to seek

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018