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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  into 60s lore and learning about the inception of my favorite music was ... a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... .    I stumbled into a motorcycle fest — specifically, Wild Rabbit Moto Fest, organized by Madhouse Motors every spring. I’d heard of it from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  into MIT, and that might suck, because waiting sucks. Everybody is ... as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently, changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to ... to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  fulfilling my childhood pre-MIT dream of making it into Popular Science as well ... first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the top of Boston's Prudential Tower. (In case anybody missed the implication, Top of the Hub is not somewhere students usually have the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  one of the billion activities going on that weekend, or peeking into a ... Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right now, many of you have probably procrastinated on making one of (what you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  75% of the pset left to do. I chug along and get through most of the ... along until I get some form of an answer, and call it a day. I definitely ... make it to the restaurant, grab some food from what’s left of the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... since the second term of freshman year. Of course, I have by now missed my ... will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  of buildings around campus, MIT would rather have pipes and wires and ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... dreams and goals of what's going to happen 100 or 1000 steps from now. From

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... finding time, given my busy schedule of watching superhero cartoons

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  Since you're all probably sick of hearing about my summer, I emailed ... out of the ~20 cheerleaders on the squad. I think I'll just list what ... architecture in the Veneto Area (around Venice)... mainly the work of Carlo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about ... Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Department of Defense, so his family lives on Okinawa, and it would have been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of ... one side of my body. Given that this is New England (42o north latitude ... -MIT people who are still interested in the minutiae of your MIT life. My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005