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• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to ... a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make ... breakfast, mess around for a bit, and embark on my journey to 6-120, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup ... wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to go to school for chemical engineering, since I was ~good at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350 a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I wasn’t born yesterday and I know that it’ll probably happen to some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness ... professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... internship program that I've been dying to do since forever. I applied last

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we need to make Camp Kesem happen each summer. One such event took place

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public ... snickers, like "why does a chemical engineer want to be an actor, too?" But

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has ... , a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... time than most questions I encounter on an hourly basis. I started to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator" is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  So I was going to draft this entry last night (I went as far as typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008