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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  required HASSes so it's a good rule of thumb to try and get one out of the ... resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... grasp, I've been following the Opera of the Future project with growing

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  technology to address the basic needs of low-income households. In many ways ... the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  the ground—at home I did a good 40% of my homework and 90% of my You ... [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  aggressive version of monocase and literally does not use the shift button at ... replacement for the period, who knows :p in actuality, however, one of my ... omitting of the oxford comma, and comma frequency in general might be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... some new sounds, check out what the bloggers listen to, a good 2019

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... the results of the dance audition." Me: "Who's Sally?" Boyfriend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... rationality is some people's holy grail. emotions get in the way of reason but ... , what does it mean to be mentally healthy? at the lab where i UROPed this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... 're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also ... gay and lesbian community at MIT--the good, the bad, and the ugly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me ... organizations under the values of sisterhood, scholarship, service, leadership ... friends, and as communities. Hi there! We’re the authors of this post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American ... intimidating as well. Not in the number of people. But because of how I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the ... kids, where does the illuminati stay on campus, can someone major in a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow ... the residents of Conner 2 (second floor of the Conner side of Burton ... one of its kitchens so that's where we got the snow for the majority of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  a doer of *good*. And perhaps that is the most important kind of doer ... , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... pixie dream girl world, where the rules and laws of the world are beneath

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A ... closing of the door, the camera cuts away to a peaceful Next House Dining

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day ... one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  a step, your foot does not actually rise to the height of the new step ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... one of the best ways to enjoy it. if your fast walking procedure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021