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• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... extracurricular activity to which most can devote time – unless, that is, you ... . GPI is easily one of the most organized and sophisticated initiatives

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  promising and in good hands. Yes, it's Saturday, and I'm working. Much of the ... Boston, the ability to have so many colleges right nearby is a really great ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  , went to my first bar in Boston, and stayed up into the wee hours ... as amazing. I got to watch the sun set on the beach without a worry in ... opportunity to interview on-site at another company in the Bay Area in two days

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... to try for grad school again at some point in the future it'll be good ... gaining the skills to be hired in that job at the bachelor's level. If you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... home to the 41 and see that the alignment chart is being updated, and 5 ... get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  ships on display. I take a diversion to The Alchemist and take in the way ... admire the reflections of headlights in the street. Simmons to Du Pont T ... is in the Forge and Foundry space below the Infinite Corridor, where we

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  because the last thing you want to do is to waste a supervision. The good thing about weekly psets at MIT is that there's an end to the madness ... The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  . That class is the most information intensive class I've ever seen in my ... airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... * final that could be equated to being repeatedly paddled in the face

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  up in and boarded a one-way flight to Boston. The rain was moody and ... : the first week of orientation is (almost) dedicated to REX, or Residence ... Next House had to offer, I decided to remain in my temporary dorm for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms ... The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  in spring, I said fuck it and decided to rush. It is one of the best ... . 1. Live and breathe PNR. Don't stay up until 3 in the morning to ... mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  has international feel to it. The guy sitting diagonal to me is Skyping ... . On the plus side, most people are choosing to assume that it's 100 ... time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  levels. Most important to us is that you are interested, motivated, and ... relevant to ongoing projects in the lab, help design experiments, and be ... of the speaker, in order to align head and hand gestures with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  in the other country. It's interesting to see the different sorts of ... discussion board. Probably one of the most striking differences in ... completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  , almost everyone i know is in it. you don't have to figure out where you ... one concern i hear from a lot of people on-the-fence is of mit ... say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up ... for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I ... Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be closer to the kinds of design one might see in Course 4, architecture (see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  upside-down and climbing the ropes, and training my body to balance in the ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  put in, so my detachment is on me.     There’s an innocent energy to ... gifts as a way to distinguish the recipient of each gift. Then sometime in ... hahahripahah)[/caption] My sister is now going to that other school down the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  in your near-adult life. Because there is just so much to do all the ... -learned lessons in mind, if not in heart. Maybe the only way to learn how to live is ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022