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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... referring to free space in a schedule, like a buffer period. but there's a ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... concerts firefly — four friends and i went to Dover, Delaware for three ... . the music slapped though dance kinematix — i biked to Northeastern

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  watercolor and graphite, so I tried to experiment with other media ... of the piece was to illustrate accents and the uniqueness of accents ... person with some escaping her mouth.  I’ve been wanting to embroider for a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk, and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , Thursday and Friday, to make a four-day long weekend. This year, breaking tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... routine. I knew what to do. #runwithmaud spread across the internet like ... may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... blog post to remind applicants that last year we published an FAQ ... everyone here wants to make sure our application process is as fair as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an "advising seminar." (There also used to be RBA/residence-based advising, where

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... learned that even GIR classes want you to do more than use the equations

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  in response to Trump's immigration freeze on seven nations. MIT has 38 ... back to the United States. Students (including yours truly) joined Boston ... video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in which he uses legitimate, scientific tools and data to guess at impossible

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but ... anesthetized mouse and had me conduct a perfusion to fix its brain, a surgical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... cross country team dinners; it’s where MIT students say they’d like to order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... to college. But now the payoff has come, and it is time to make the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in the beginning, I had some time to blog but I was like...uhm I don't have ... #2. (feel free to intersperse POW Japanese quiz BAM Japanese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008