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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  most of the distribution is done by NGOs. Our first, rather impromptu ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... distributed water to several camps, but were turned away because the man in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to ... to take the time to evaluate where I was in each of these two classes

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... bathroom included. Plus nothing beats coming home to someone. This is the ... lack of group outings and physical entertainment. The service is not much

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  issues like these, but I think one of the most important things is to ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree ... most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  related to IQ. It is, however, the most common learning disability, at MIT ... , pronunciation of those words is unique to the individual. We use these nuances in ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... make the subject easy to understand and much more interesting. Also, they ... thus far. It also should be mentioned that it is a major plus to hear the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  't quite reach. The only inconvenience is that here in Boston, like most ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... Worcester to see a Nightwish concert. Taking the T is essential for getting

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  apartment that she was to live in for the next three months. It’s nothing like ... down Newbury Street or Boylston is always in the cards, and even ... parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don ... most people are quick to say that they're just fine. In fact, if there ... . (For the most part, that is - I was still drugging myself with everything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes ... in my last blog (Seamless), Cracked was asked to throw the CAVS Giant

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP ... turns out that a minority of buttloads is still most of a buttload. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , i didn't spend much time considering it. i didn't want to live in ... away from me! the actual move-in was a nightmare. when you own as much ... took a bit of time. laundry is in the basement, which is annoying since i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  -yo...but everyone know that simple isn't always the most exciting. So we thought to ... Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT ... to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the ... . Milkshake: Technically, this is the same as a frappe. In Boston, however

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  longer than 4 years to graduate, but mostly I hear the problem is due to ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... housing system is a bit unique in that, in most dorms, students (or at least

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks. I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek ... much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people ... I need to destroy everything around me to move on in the first place ... nothing happens in our lives during the cold winter except bundling up to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  being said, there is a 'cream rising to the top' phenomenon in public ... college, so this period is the most competitive era in college admissions ... stellar pool. The most important thing now is not to take this personally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006