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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... 's why Wikipedia was invented. I think Wikipedia is the ideal task for ... just wrapping up around 143 years ago today. I had completely forgotten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... ended up being pretty excited about the concert for two reasons. 1. Fans ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for ... up for FOUR HOURS of a thing I didn't even understand! And the ... , and is set up in a discussion-focused style with debates and discourse

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... 't end up investing a lot of time in this class. If I could choose my courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not ... -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from freshman year, although, for many reasons, I still think freshman year

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  to enjoy some nice steak. The steak made up for it. Brass Rat 2017 ... ; Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history ... Comm members went up and revealed the design of our 2017 Brass Rat bezel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  qualified for nationals after placing fourth in New England, while the men ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone ... to give it another going over. This time we made time for a photo op

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South ... and CSAIL for a tour, which is when the fun actually began. This is where I encountered "The Group". For the last several months there has

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... drafts leading up to A New Hope show a vast improement in quality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... engaged with the other half. Chalk it up to being the first time in most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  that the freedoms and privileges that I enjoy today were fought for and ... wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... and cloaked bigotry at every turn, and waking up every morning to hear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  we would for sure do it, seriously). “Can you wake me up early tomorrow ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  on the project. When a newspaper calls me up and asks for comments, I ... David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... despair, of giving up in just about every facet of life. College has been a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  random people. Even more embarrassingly, after hyping up the proposal for ... apartment for 3.5 years, after moving 5 times in a single year. I won a big ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  to be told. And that scared me. Now the semester is ending, *I look up ... " kind of semester. Like a "let's start up weekly therapy appointments ... was ready for this giant sigh of "I'm done" after I closing my last exam

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  music and sound help me build a sense a place. If you’re up for it, I ... with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time ... reading applications for the next—so it’s perhaps the only (and best?) time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... seat for you right here.” Madeline sat down on his knee and they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the ... is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... up at 6am), I wouldn’t change my experience for the world. I love being

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010