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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... once or twice a week Guidelines “The only dream worth having is to ... life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown ... with one message to summarize the most important thing I learned during ... named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... ”, a freshman jokes in our group chat, referring to the history timeline ... you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  festivals for students in rural, underserved communities along the way! to ... had no time to waste. i honestly can’t remember much from the days ... the men competed, the squad went to el jefe’s in harvard square for some

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  is doing to find the cure for cancer in Hershey. Lift for Life will not ... white-out game, titled, “The Greatest Show In College Football.” I used to ... after the rain, and there is no smell to the air but that rain. State

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain ... my mic while trying to keep my MIT crew hat from blowing off in the ... the stove in my suite in Macgregor. I miss speed walking to campus

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... competition they have in this category, but a winner is a winner. The store ... in the Z Center, but another thing to run in a nice shirt inside of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  found in the hotel! NITROGEN ICE CREAM (those of you coming to CPW ... all obstacles. It is the ability to move mountains one grain of sand at ... prepared to find the new station. Usually when I'm in these situations

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... is an RSI alum, I am inclined to believe him.   *Note: Most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  overwhelming majority come from 2020 on. This is due in large part to the blow up ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and ... ’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  (you kinda have to be a nerd here). Now is probably the best time to ... fit is more important to thrive here than at most colleges. If you don ... is still deeply embedded in the spirit of the place. I don’t work well

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  think the hardest part is initiation. as in, everything would work out if ... over time   v. one amusing thing i noticed is that most of the ... you’d expect this sentence to be said by someone who was held in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an ... is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II ... , probably because I had to much work. Do you always wait for the longest day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I ... networking. In the music industry, she noted, the career path is less linear ... ’d applied to (and really wanted to go to) were in Boston, or on the East coast

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  too much" in the words of a popular website --delicious chicken ... you want to see exactly what an MIT student does over the summer? There ... immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... , Next House's Country Kitchen is in the basement). Unfortunately, living in a dorm with a dining hall requires that you buy into the House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... set up our tents in the dark (read: with difficulty) on Friday night ... that they were all even more beautiful in person, especially the cloudy

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... never could really find the time to do in college, nor really had the ... that I'd like to do in the next five to ten years - which seems like a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  home anymore. i’m referring here to the house i lived in for most of ... make frequent pilgrimages to the loading docks to cruft — that is, to ... wanted to find.) when i first saw the letter in my inbox, i had just

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025