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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  with the six of us - relative novices in matters relating to the formation of the United States - for three hours every week and pore through ... our opinions and tell her what the documents meant for ourselves, even

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my ... . Said illusion is currently failing to function. Case in point: Where did my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a ... troops for battle. The army men hunker down in a trench (...created by a ... session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto campus for the first time as an actual student - when I said that final goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, who received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1977. He gave an inspiring presentation that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  bread in between two slices of bread) for dinner, so we headed out to the ... ? Do computers play a big part in life in general at MIT, or just for ... them in conjunction with Ben's mom, etc.) IAP began a little over a week

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  /NJ) four very expensive coffee-flavored quesadillas for dinner in Times ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  Coast—of course, as was typical for my academically-serious parents, such ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... would visit MIT several more times for the Harvard-MIT Mathematics

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for ... remember correctly). The tiny class size allows for quick response during

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  , giving you the chance to specifically put your resume in to apply for that ... (and then back to Tokyo for work on Monday). I come back to America in ... This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  and 5pm in the company's time zone, which is really awkward for people ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... metaphorical plot, it's a true inspiration for my secret pipe dream of becoming

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... attendees have not been and will not all be admitted (in my mind, I viewed it

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... , you’re dancing awfully close to Jimmy...”) Have no fear, for if you come

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  experiences growing this cilantro and apply it to care for yourself in the same ... , and for the first time in your life you will have closed a significant ... you marinate on for days, the trace of their face in the moonlight

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  same city in the same house in Los Angeles for all of my 18 years. Life ... end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  skills that may be useful for your character in the game, like fighting or ... auction where old bicycles sell for very cheap prices. I also discovered ... character part in an Assassins' Guild game. The Guild is an MIT live

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  . In fact, lab was the reason I realized my love for STEM. It was ... fabricating this MIT student in my head, not really knowing if I'm doing it for ... MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  as well, but for now I am enjoying myself in the moment, even with the ... listed in course 1 and course 11</a<, which provides for an ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  about. To fix. To find inspiration in. Identity is Worth Fighting For ... to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut ... be best to eat Oreos upon waking up for class. But if you slather

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021