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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  came when they opened the gate to the next-door parking lot field ... Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an impromptu but educational field trip, because c'mon, a real. life. performance ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  schools do not calculate GPA or class rank, it's okay for your counselor/principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor/principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the ... 's Mathematics Department represents a broad spectrum of fields ranging from the
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  ! And out the window to the buildings across the field that glow and ... had just moved to Cambridge not even 3 months before, and was adjusting to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  only mean one thing--IT'S TIME TO BUILD A SNOW FORT! Part 1: The ... inches deep. At MIT, we’re blessed with Briggs Field, a massive recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field to get an answer.)
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  reasonable to do something related to one's field or just go out into the woods ... telescope about every half hour/hour to make sure it is always in the field of ... field camp), which is an observational astronomy lab intensive class that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  finals and can no longer just afford to surf on the oscillating waves ... I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  spines will tend to be more active. In a hand-waving way, spine density and ... This morning I went in early to image neurons on the confocal microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their own and their home and I continue to trek along my MIT path, closer to ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  communication common to the field's professional and academic culture". In other ... do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated ... managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and won $15

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  , which is a measure of sentiment ranging from -1 to 1 calculated by taking ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  to read and pronounce Middle English, writing pieces on radio astronomy for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace ... layperson is doing a great service not only to your specific field, but to all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... :58 AM* "AH CRAPPPP. NOT AGAIN!" *throws TI-89 calculator into pocket and ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes ... , administrators say. The felines add a warm touch to a high-pressure environment of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010