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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... that Gettysburg was, in fact, the most important battle of the Civil War

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

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  life, so much so in fact, that for the rest of this week, I am no longer ... from the Student Center to the abode that is Random Hall. Beyond our ... . If you're asking yourself, "Should I go to Thing X?" the answer is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... /when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... philosophy class in the freshman year learning community Concourse, which is a ... .001) → Rank D I found myself struggling to care in this class. The way beams

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  recent years - and is most commonly known in the US as Libertarianism. To ... or theft. Or in its own words, “the minimal state is the most extensive ... to an argument you make is really important in most any scenario, but

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and ... cook myself and I’ve survived this much, but props to the people who can ... . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Miserables. Jerome gives me a ride to work most mornings, but the night after ... barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... the international crowd seemed to pretty much expect everything else we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  who is depressed. In my experience, I have only been able to get to know ... health issues. The key, as I have observed, is to genuinely care for each ... living next to you is doing. The world needs us. That’s why we are all at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying ... 's scrambled eggs tutorial and threw some cream cheese in. The trick is to 1 ... 's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... working + drove in a Zipcar to this random place out in the 'burbs of Boston

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... asked I've been think, most of the UROPs I've read about are in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  timestamp links to skip ahead to that point in the video: Silver team: fire ... process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students ... . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  kuya, as in "kuya cj". malamig ba diyan? is it cold there? the philippines is in the tropics, so it's hot. the coldest it gets in my city is 20 ... ] the song "dear kuya" is about overseas filipino workers, or ofws. in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  /No Record. Oh, how much I miss you already PNR. I just want it to be the ... exams or psets in the way. 6.177 and SP.800 happened to both take place ... Senior World Championships is coming to Boston in March! Definitely stoked

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  , aka HackMIT, is the biggest hackathon at MIT and one of the biggest in ... understand the vision we wanted everyone to share.  MIT’s spring term ends in ... [annotation note="BC FLEX is a chance for all the freshman of Burton-Conner to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  somewhat similar experiences, it is easy to just stay in the international ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... heavier winter clothing and buy it once you get to Boston, that is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in Green Bank, WV is located in the nation's only radio-quiet zone that ... writing class to know the rest. In other news, I've been running around like a maniac, made two overnight trips to Connecticut in the same week

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to ... honestly, most of the quotes that get sent to this list have similar energies ... tomorrow, walk to the office of administration, sit down in the middle of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007