Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... detachment, you can still participate in ROTC at another school in the area ... in the program. You can find a lot more information about that at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I ... deckbuilding roguelike that I've poured over sixty hours into. If you can't tell ... put more cards in your deck and earn gold that can be spent on shops

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  , saying “hi, my name is…” more times than I ever have at any point in my ... I'll remember their faces, spirit, advice, and aknowledgement. In the ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  them envision themselves in these spaces. Instead of just telling you how ... use. I had never lived in a place with any kind of public transportation ... got to explore the city in a way I never had before and share the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... it to see how MIT has changed me. You can usually [annotation note="yes, everybody can tell that you are a freak obsessed with final fantasy 7. i guess

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  medieval literature in a game of pixilated world domination. And I can say ... , battles, effects, and I would take bullet-point notes to stash away in my ... experience. So, going back to the original question: how did I end up mass

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional ... start masking as neurotypical again. It’s funny how I can’t seem to put a ... never show up on a resume or in a job interview. I’m trying to learn how

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... . Turns out it was my toaster! I just had no idea it was there in the first

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... , I'm still quite familiar with several concepts in phonology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system ... (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall ... middle school and high school! While I didn't do anything worth while in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag ... , and current research projects that you can check out. I also cheated on ... Syndrome, but I cannot explain how satisfying it was to see this website

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting ... cancelled and I'd have to stay overnight in Virginia. Of course, all of the ... to take me in on very short notice. Eventually, I did make it back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  People often find it shocking when I say it, but if MIT was in ... Illinois except directly in Chicago, I'd continue to suffer from my high ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  welcome new talent? In a nation of laws, how can we reject students and ... 's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT, because even today I still can’t believe it. I didn’t really enjoy math and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013