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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  admissions office, and they needed to be brought up to speed about student life ... incredible to-die-for self-discipline. She exercises all the time, does her ... incentive - the need, really - to distinguish myself in healthier, more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  focus on three technicals at once. I want to commit to never again taking ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  agreeing to too much. I realized that what I needed was some kind of line in ... needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... ! you need to do less, you dumbass. the cognitive dissonance is strong

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  recruited weren't able to train or grow much as dancers since, well, they ... to how much I value dancing and want to use my limited time at MIT appropriately to do it as much as possible. it's been stressful, at times perhaps

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... ? Perhaps this sounds great to you, but perhaps you are wondering – “so what

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  to Alewife. We hadn’t seen much of Boston, and it was an enthralling ... that I need to say “no” to more things. Especially when this means ... the joy in listening to my needs and treating myself, and I’m excited to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... February 2003 passed without much discussion at MIT. After the attacks were

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  system.” She also emphasized that we need to find better measures of “healthiness” and we also need to reward good results in the healthcare arena ... all nations need to be healthy, we shouldn’t be the only ones.) How

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  you're talking with 5 or 6 remoters, and trying to handle 3 different ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because ... to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  and it was FUN. I went from not knowing how to properly handle a drill ... 't have the engineering skills yet to contribute as much as I wanted to. It ... 't been on this site for a while—probably because I won't ever need to use

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  really need this much ivy growing on the walls?" ... DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class, which aren't very insightful as I've only been to each class once. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... Psets, tests, and the horror of finals season, will be much deserved and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  much needed beverage or three will be found. Leg 4 (Checkpoint ... as you go, what could be better? Once/if you get to the finish, which ... extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  need to bring a pillow, since I have a couch you can sleep on. But ... in a lounge or something, and might need to bring a sleeping bag). Your ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater ... up running around madly and using the compass on my smartphone to ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  information we have and finds out how to apply was exactly what I needed. This ... need to have the BEST sounding papers, with the LARGEST impact, and you ... generation to begin a process of making this system a system that does what it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost ... nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full attention to them. With that said though, exams have come and gone and I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  II There is not much to be said about this class except that ... -mailing elizabizzle at mit dot edu). It's your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask a ... 't know what I'm talking about, I direct you to Snively's post, which noted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  standards? Also, why does it take me an hour to do winged eyeliner? Worry ... or people who resembled blobs because I forgot to wear my glasses. Foresight can be 20/20, too! All myopia jokes aside, here's what I'd like to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020