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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  for the amount of activity I’ve done in the last four hours. By the time ... and pick up. My sister and I are really close, but now that both of us ... stairs of Walker Memorial and into Caving Club office. Could I have skipped

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... was based on one-variable calculus. Now, I knew the focus of the class ... got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  Two weeks of class have already flown by. Problem sets are perpetual ... fill them up with Gauss this and Gauss that by the end of the class ... at the end of the semester. Oh, by the way, I am pretty sure Professor

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  message of love! Is Madeline here?”—Madeline raised her hand—“Would you like to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were ... they belong. Suddenly we were interrupted by the all-male a capella group

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them ... room has started to smell faintly of mildew, and old people. And all of ... in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of ... at MIT, and I love it. Here are some of the classes I am taking or have ... about different "isms" (Futurism, Surrealism...) and types of poetry and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  legendary new unit of measurement, the smoot (now incorporated by Google ... The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named ... . The marker points to the location of the MIT Club of Central Ohio Summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to browse photos of mountain ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

   recently pointed out. On day one of FAP, I was greeted by a bunch of hyperactive ... As the advent of another academic year approaches, I feel somewhat ... with excitement and wonder. Of course, the honeymoon didn't last forever

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  Troupe. DanceTroupe is a program run by MIT students who choreograph dances of ... [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time ... some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... of it (recognizing it as idealistic, possibly self-centered and a ... Syllabus Areas of Development 1. Intellectual 2. Physical 3. Artistic 4

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already ... defined by a set of arbitrary checklists or shiny, new facilities. It’s that ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  of women reaches into the double digits,” an expert panel convened by ... Perhaps you have noticed my lack of blogging lately, unfortunately I ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  claimed that the solution to one of the metas was given by reading the first ... -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  *written by Mariam D. '20 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... of those children, with my clothes being flicked around by a familiar ... before us, their eyes squinting in the glare of the merciless sun. There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... session in freshman fall, he read us wild geese by mary oliver. You do not ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam ... famous Great Dome…by myself, in the middle of Cambridge, almost 500 miles ... prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024