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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  lecture for worldbuilding, Junot Díaz talked about how people need to escape ... that class at all and I was fine," not "I spent hours making up the ... crying in bed, the exercise journal I kept and meals I skipped for the sake

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  this: 5-room, large half: My home for the past three semesters has been ... door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of ... can see below, supplied by Random Hall for free: Below are some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... for you to cover and so much stuff to do while you're here that you ... moment, there's plenty of reasons for you to venture away from campus and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  adventure known as 2.009. This is the famous capstone class for seniors in ... it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of ... for it, you spend lots of time preparing, and it's like this super

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  end up living my life. This year I have had deep, beautiful friendships that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... and new experiences. I know that I will create the conditions for my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  lot of pressure at MIT. I heard that if you get Cs for two semesters in ... really impressive. For example, the first person who invented helicopters ... point....and the host proceeds to laud her for a bit. Janet says she's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  MIT campus is defined and elevated by its people, and for this blogpost ... -controlled planes for fun, often building them from scratch (some of which he featured ... freshman-year jolt MIT is known for. He admits to feeling like hot stuff

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  be up and running for admission consideration....For an incoming junior ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... the options are great... well, they're about as good as they are for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  this book to me for over a year, but it took me forever to pick it up ... . It like opens up a world that is, for lack of a better word, true. That ... eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  construction of an extra GRT apartment for Spanish House, who were exiled from ... -new MacG.  All MacG rooms were singles except for [annotation note ... that included the addition of another apartment for the Area Director

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  ’t picked up anything that resonated with me deeply enough. Until recently ... . For the rest of the train ride, I just stared out of the window, letting ... think I’m finally sweeping up the pieces, hoping that I’ll be able to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  PS, calligraphy enthusiast, and enthusiastic evangelist for the noble cause of ... , commas, and empty roads, and has always wanted to grow up to become a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay ... ago, when I went up to him humming with nervous energy (a mix of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature ... selfie of two MechE alums. We engineers clean up well!  Oh, and in

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  culinary greatness to automatically make burritos. Up until several hours ago ... for riding on the T. Their product has received the support of both the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from Wednesday afternoon, November 21 through Monday morning, November 26 for the ... mega-chain reaction that takes up almost the entire flor space of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  Center for Theoretical Physics, eager to witness MIThenge.  And though ... -11-11 04:21:09 PM EST. Just head up to the third floor of Building 8. And

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... decided to jump out the window. I'm not sure how he got up there, but he did

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  bonded like crazy and ended up having the best times of our lives ... MIT for giving us opportunities like FUP and all these amazing public

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  In Matt’s latest post he says that MyMIT will be up August 19. This is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011