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• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places ... It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .012/18.014/18.022/18.024 in that it's mainly for folks who love challenging themselves or would ... who was there to smelt medals for the people in 3.091(Introduction to ... convention oven and tell us how we were in for a treat. Sticking in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... people you know for help. This may be your parents, professors, friends, or GRT (graduate resident tutor). They may know someone who works in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby ... , historic home in Boston. Only the signs really give it away as being a museum

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to live on Burton 2, known primarily for being right below the Burton Third Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  for everyone's sanity to be able to get off campus once in awhile). When ... People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Frank Sinatra in New York, New York: these vagabond shoes were longing to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... grades are in) Barker Reading Room Campus Preview Weekend Career Fair -- alums come back and recruit for their employers; everyone looks better

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. What should ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... with that? It is true that we have not utilized the waitlist in the past

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  my old Baker House housemate, who was a Sequence Supervisor for special ... Pixar friend majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS, or Course 6) at MIT, so if you're interested in working on the next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  essay test that started in March - and will be given for the second time ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... section. In March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  Institute (RSI) -- sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education, MIT ... could share in the joy!" Well, now you can share the excitement! [I ... classes in computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics taught

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m choosing classes for next semester ... for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... ="" align="alignnone" width="267"] for reference, a lemming[/caption] My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the ... in this picture).So, now I'll move on to Friday!For you people on the ... screenprinting for so long.Then I played with the scary chairs in Baker, that lean

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  if you grow up in a Christian family, there's a huge price for NOT ... . As for the miraculous, science-defying events that happen in the Bible ... mentally occupied for awhile. So, in case you were wondering- yes, there is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... In Matt’s latest post he says that MyMIT will be up August 19. This ... in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I just cooked large amounts of angel hair pasta with ground beef in black ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and pretty much lived off of avocado toast in the morning and Maseeh dining for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... psetting. I am much more productive, attentive in class, and enjoy my morning

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  capstoneproject for the aero astro department. Basically, in teams of two people ... , differences in pressure need to physically make sense. Magical. My notes for the ... conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014