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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all ... me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things set up before we release decisions at noon. If you're looking for a way

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... initiated me into the 9 to 5 world, something I thought would be easy. At the beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  interesting way to get my county-required humanities credit than the school ... of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high ... . But AP classes were the easiest way to access fun, exciting work with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  scenery BY ZIPLINE! Zipline is the way to travel, let me tell you. I even ... . Also, shooting rifles is fun.  The ride up to the ski resort. My first ... I get to see him regularly. I hadn't seen the other friend in about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  consider your decision before letting us know one way or the other. It is in ... , try to take another oboe player (why is the example admissions officers ... another college to attend by May 1. What should I do about the May 1 reply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I ... fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to ... Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  interesting way to get to know what kind of person they are. Also... The ... listen to a playlist that your friend made or the other way around, since music is so personal--being able to connect in that way is a testament to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  heart going to the poetry store in harvard square with alan and getting ... for the best." (all time ever does is pass) "I’ve completed one more ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  the Student Center to check in with the Orientation people. (This is a great idea, because that way you can get your MIT ID card, which has your ... . Number 88 is "Count your steps down the Infinite Corridor." So I figured

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re ... or whether you’re just listening to keep the silence at bay. Whether it ... affordable) way to relieve some of the stress MIT can give. And trust me, there

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected ... wholesome gingerbread house and person decorating event quickly went off the rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... meat on the farm and tried to keep it up after I left, but I wound up ... Losbetos or Filiberto’s. But according to Google Maps, they don’t seem to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  closest dorm to the Kendall Square T station on the Red Line.) By the way ... digress.) As you're walking from the main buildings over to the east side of campus, you see this: which is the side of the Haus. This used to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  to use it. the procedure for running Artemis is fairly automated so I ... exposure times. the way Artemis works is that you write a small operating ... as per usual. i tried to turn Jensen back to the dark side, that is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... in 1992. What I didn't know at the time is that FIRST was actually ... classmates, Megan Smith is now the current Chief Technology Officer of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  everything else. The plan was to study from 9 PM all the way to 9 AM, which is ... airport I'm trying to fly into is about to get buried in the worst snow ... SO MUCH to study. Oh, wait, quick sidetrack. On the first day of finals

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  This message goes out especially to the juniors... seniors, spread the word to your favorite underclassmen. The three high school summer ... are great ways to spend your summers. I just hope you'll take advantage

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... measurable ways, life is largely the same, just with 10pm-6am work inexplicably ... optimism and self-confidence which is slowly reduced to dust over the course

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014