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• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  regarding choosing between two sets of double majors, or how i’m applying to ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... increasingly became one of few Black/Puerto Rican students in those classes ... they could. They agreed that they would apply to every Ivy League school

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  of you who applied Early Action have received your decision, and those of you who applied Regular Action have begun your anxious waiting ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... a Guitar Hero guitar (that's the point of Guitar Hero), and if anyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to ... delight. I repeatedly and very awkwardly offered to pay her back, take down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life ... does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  international students have applied for freshman admission, making the rate of ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I've been eating well, and the schoolwork hasn't affected any of my habits ... , and of course Oreos—to fill my empty fridge. A week of eating nothing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  does Simmons Hall have?” Ouch, ok. Just kidding, that wasn’t the ... make ChatGPT give me a list of jokes while writing this post, but it just ... !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  , mourning that minute of sleep that I’ll never get back. I reward myself with ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into them. I know she’ll do great. I walk to my hall’s kitchen and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  the hall. No classmates down the stairs. No classmates anywhere nearby, really. Possibly more importantly, no meal plans or dining halls in sight ... after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  happy to introduce you to MacGregor, MIT's only dorm composed of all ... out of pasta. Or Mountain Dew. MacGregor is divided into nine "entries"; an entry forms the basic social unit of the dorm. The entries are named

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the cellular/molecular neurobiology type, because that's her field of interest

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  During the storms of May, the Charles rages toward the ocean while ... as they laugh at the sheer amount of water pouring from the sky. I’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... full week's worth of life into it. This semester, I only had one final, on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester, I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018