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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... twitter. Facebook, I do use, as many of you have discovered. I get about 2

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused ... ,"On the one hand, Japanese hip-hop admittedly takes a lot of its roots from ... the other hand, a lot of artists intentionally take a lot of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  guidance/college counselor. Often, their years of experience provide wisdom ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  told me this was the best semester of college they’ve had so far, and the ... trying over and over for most of high school and my first year of college ... a few weeks ago i asked my friend what kinds of people i should date

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... ’ve graduated, guys… Elizabeth, Course 20 class of 2013, lived in Simmons Hall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month ... of a harsh coughing noise) and "kamber" is really just a weird nickname

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  for something related to your education, MIT offers a lot of ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... 's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... exciting, one of my biggest accomplishments during my time here has been my ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  pillows. Not on your first week of college. -- chairs, bean bags, and other ... In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... years of college, I would go to these buffets (true story! Ask anyone who ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  -250 Featuring The Bowdoin College Meddiebempsters. Resonance, one of MIT's co ... BEST OF COLLEGE A CAPPELLA 2006 compilation CD. Our new album, Left on ... 10 days of: Nausea :: Vomiting :: Diarrhea :: High Fever :: Dry cough

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... puzzles from an issue of P&A Magazine together. The last time the Puzzle ... walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Pushing Daisies, or a video of your favorite technical college admissions ... Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014