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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... further ado, let’s embark on our Tour de Frat! Phi Beta Epsilon First up is

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes for every lecture, all with different amounts of material. On top of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as ... a pretty good job at. ...Better than Petey, who straight up looks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for ... can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  experimental, part-edX class called Creating Digital Learning Materials for ... in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... sped up snippets of the reversed erasing clips to match them up with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break. On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... conductor. He’s very fun, energetic, and he comes up with the most

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... , you know, Ben Folds only got the thumbs up from 70% of the student ... selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , thanks for putting up with my ludicrous dance skills. See you in the fall! ... , which I absolutely loved. I met up with my host, Brad ’08, and from the ... anticlimactically canceled, but I still went for a nice run with a couple of other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  describe my last couple minutes for you. [background] I've just woken up at 11 o'clock after going to bed at 6. I drag myself up, into the bathroom ... stay awake and died. The next thing I know I'm being woken up by my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very first time. Last night I woke up at 5:30 to put the finishing touches on ... encountered my suitemate and moral compass Dizzle '09, just finishing up a 2

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even ... for a whole day. Breakfast: I love Frosted Flakes. Really I do ... routine for the past 7 years, and I'm not about to stop now. (Although

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  show for it but stagnation. I’m bitter. I’m sad. I’m angry. There were posters for events from more than a year ago hanging in the infinite. Worse ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... started! There are two computer options for MIT: Desktops and laptops. Both ... Macs. Which Mac though? >Macbook Macbooks are great for your typical

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... 're still with them. This is especially true for all you high school seniors who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  have such different calender schedules? For example, are there issues ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for example. But it may be getting easier for fall term cross registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... about the Red Sox. Because had it not been for the MIT Blogs, I'm not ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  myself up for frequent maximal states of flow. Then comes the hard part ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two exams this semester: 6.046 and 7.012.   [STEP 1] TRAIN FOR BATTLE

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  shape up my time-managment skills, and I had enough money to pay for any ... , my family sat down around the kitchen table for a discussion. My dad ... pieces of scrap paper. Finally, he looked up and said, "Well, we can pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006