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• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  . Boston is cold in the winter. It truly is. I’m just starting to feel that ... because there is so much to be done at any given time. Get excited for all ... important. The curriculum is different in my country. I haven’t done AP

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty ... of a process than an event; sure, the main goal is to get the frosh ... more abstract purpose relates to getting us in the appropriate mental

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  unsuspecting children would continue to buy Pokemon cards (the most expensive of ... famous blues club in Austin. Ry is scheduled to play the first one-hour set ... real world you should neglect in solving this problem: ² The earth is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  the big deal is") to prostitutes ("They are so mean!"). Mostly, though ... , though not necessarily from film) to participate in the Michel Gondry ... causes all the tapes to be erased. Left to their own devices, the pair is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys ... of the dorm. The design is a pretty big downside to Burton ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’ ... University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  'm much better at that now; I want the scars in my projects to be from my ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much ... again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  're taught to associate with the class. Most amphibians are born in the water ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... a limited amount of money to buy a limited amount of materials.  The

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  submission date for documents to show up in the tracking system. We have ... submission. If something is missing in mid-late November, then the fax will be ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  , Belgium, Germany, etc.) is probably in the works. The schedules pretty much ... difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... -taught by the amazing Prof. Stubbe (who, in addition to being a brilliant

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... "]tensor[/annotation] is. The problem is that physics is hard. Really hard, and in a ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  to the same fate, I have decided on minor downsizing. The issue is I ... on the board, so I was mandated to wear this shirt twice a month in ... to buy the shirt because it had corn on it for Iowa and I didn't want

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  hour (or half hour). That's because 17 is the most random number ... somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green, double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  play in every piece, so I don’t have to go to the entire 7:30-10pm ... stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... ’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  year. PNR This is the simplest and most commonly known, so we'll start ... .111[/annotation] is known to have a much lower pass rate than tests like [annotation ... you, though, because most of this is external factors (the average MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  still very much adapting to the new culture and life in general. I have ... . Usually, I am the one sleeping in 18.02 (10 am is too early for me to think ... class in the same department. The most enjoyable parts of the class is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020