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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... this year. Q. I'm not a super-genius. Can I still survive at MIT? A ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... they take in oxygen, mit feels bigger now. i feel bigger now. i feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  [by Harrison Bralower '11] I distinctly remember that question when I ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper without it looking too conspicuous? When you're not wearing anything in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I’ve tried in college. The number of MIT students I have met feels incredibly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think ... IAP, and then maybe I can make it as far back as last semester ... adventures in EE), I didn't do much this IAP, so I should be able to just knock

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  9:00 AM! How on earth will I stay awake in class?!?! I have an idea.... ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should ... , I think. Can YOU figure out what I wrote?? Maybe I'm better off

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  have a dedicated home office space. I always read in my office so I can ... long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... in the how-to-program sequence (after 6.0001, which starts at the very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  was walking in the basement below the Infinite Corridor and I briefly ... helps. The place really, really helps. It's not quite MIT until I can walk ... MIT until I can crash my friends' rooms. Over the past year, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  part, but I love how people in this major help each other out, lift each ... sleep than we will get that night. On Fridays I have lab in 2.678, an ... lab is not my favorite part, I think. But I like coming in, walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was ... ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get to learn how to draw! I have a lot of artsy people in my family, my ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... repeats. The Stirling engine cycle can also be used "in reverse", to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Attention Span Documentary: [annotation note="look at how the f and i in that ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a ... read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it, by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am ... Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... struggle is worth it. This is how I felt during the entirety of November and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  as I sat there, I saw how content Raymond was. He had also lived in ... its work or its academics, but for moments where I can sit in someone ... . Although I lived in Somerville in fall 2020, it barely felt like I was living

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  make: choosing your MIT username. You may not appreciate yet how big ... graduate. In other words, this is for life. Fear not, though. After ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in Hamilton that I can break down and relate to my life, but this one strikes me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011