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• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... algebra class to confirm that I’d made the right decision in leaving Wall ... treadmill" is the straightest path through MIT. It means doing the basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  — the mitlwax community is truly unlike any other I have been a part of ... , we rented out an airbnb in Maine to spend a weekend together. I have ... you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... six science GIRs, in a given semester, it's more likely than not that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  create a phenomena in which "That's so Middleditch" describes something ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... a poster that said this food truck along with one giving out 'gourmet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  should I be doing right now? Schedule the interview now (today is the ... 's housing system is the best around, and Caltech has a similar system I admire ... I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  ). That’s about it. (Ok, I’m exaggerating a little bit. You can get general ... runs the course and for the most part approximate a final exam in that ... earning class credit, with very little downside. What I’m saying is that if

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about ... -wavy explanation, but I suspect that it's due primarily to the sharp increase in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my digital maker. Well, that’s not true. The most frustrating part is that I ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous ... tasks on my to-do list that I had neglected. Then came yet another soul ... qualifying for a spot for the 2019 US Championships in mid-January. That night

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  do well in my interviews before I'm accepted, but it's nice to have ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! So so sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  Note: i am working on a high effort long blog but this is too ... lose him in my room. He’s just a little baby When I first got the boy ... in my hood, which seemed to calm him down. The only problem is that

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that ... that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  writing team reserved a day in the middle of production so that they could ... write a game. If any of the four games that weekend were going to break, I ... retrospect, that last bit may define the MIT mindset in general—but I

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... Notre Dame, which is located in South Bend and in whose laboratories I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... IAP, and I have funding from a professor in the Biological Engineering

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  . In fact, some states were so thin that one could cross them in a day ... excited. I haven't gone more than 20 miles in a day in... ah... I'm counting ... walked and we walked. I downed a Monster but that didn't quite cancel out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But ... This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true ... the ridiculous amounts of free food I got this week. In that particular

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  The February Updates & Notes Form (FUN) is required for Early ... available in your application portal in late January and should be completed ... . Students who have already graduated select the "I'm not currently attending
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  .You must choose a username that is between 3 and 8 characters.Choose a ... (e.g. how many, when, how) that I can provide, but I'll update more ... .Information from the UAAP.Information about housing and the housing lottery.A to-do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009