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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ten hotshots per generation whose names make it into the history books

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... down time - and it's a lot simpler than trying to approach the speed of ... completely new - seemed to last forever, but once I settled into a rhythm days

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  toys. ElectroPlushies, his first push into the world of toy creation, are ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... have a better understanding of how entrepreneurs may get started with

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  staple my pieces of gridpaper into something resembling an actual problem ... This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... ?) Besides the plenitude of classrooms, some of Building 4's most enjoyable

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the alley, they appeared to be drilling holes into the pavement and covering ... construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  of the day. One late night Colin '10 and I walked into New House and ... ? ME: What? MOM: You're not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  -intensive class. since i'm also thinking of going into biology, would starting my ... I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  mindset. That with office hours and relentless amounts of time put into ... 6.009 - Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 - Physics II (E&M) CMS ... 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... realized that it's kind of bad when Mitra blogs more frequently than I do and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  other from high school, or even before. I learned there's an ecosystem of ... asymmetry to walk into a space where it seems like everyone is friends but you're the stranger. I imagine many of you will be in my situation. I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies ... , pleasure, and community building," and anyone of any level could apply as ... me refine it a bit. They asked me what the purpose of my request was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... an equal chance of partaking before it runs out. 3) When you send an e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  into finals :) Best of luck to all of you waiting on your decisions ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was ... alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  athlete knows, Day 3 of getting back into shape is by far the most painful ... stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, "whoa, air ... a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  to put all of this into some sort of algorithm or formula to determine ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they ... care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome and exciting life. When I first signed up for ROTC, I thought of it

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... our best judgment, into every decision, and most decisions are extremely ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the ... . It's just a few seconds before I'm out the front door or into the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007