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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... alone in my room, listening to the air-conditioner buzz, my body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  equation, not to mention slightly more German. I was awash in sleepiness ... want to make the point that the entire ordeal in real-time was treated ... -needed arguments were raised in the early stages of the battle, not to mention a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... their music in the Beatles' earlier albums. With this, I was able to gain ... thrilled to learn what had shaped this new sound and how the group's creation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  out at like 3, how do you not get enough sleep?” To little high school ... actually money. You have $24 and in one day you must decide how to spend that ... Brady's house, tried to get into some tall buildings, but it was like 1 in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  - what you'll get involved with, how you'll contribute to our culture and ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and ... 'll get there. In the meantime, I'm determined not to feel guilty if I need

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... to joke about engineering in ways that no one else understood. One time ... scores, so the group asked us to do it in our heads, claiming that we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus ... freshmen get to explore the dorms, meet the upperclassmen and decide where they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... suited to an online platform, so it's a great means of bringing students ... , depending on how busy things get. At this point, I have no idea, but my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  reflection that I was, in fact, fairly curious as to how I actually spend my ... secure in getting my stuff done now that I know I have enough time to do it ... MIT and I get to do things I love and find meaning in all day long

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  room (with a TV!! except I don't get to watch TV that often...) - In ... in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... Cormick Hall :) To begin with, here's the front - in all its December snow

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an ... running around New York trying to cram in as many experiences as I could ... material! And now I'm back on campus settling in and trying to feng shui

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in ... and care involved in delivering every bite of food to your doorstep ... you were a student in web.lab 2020, but you never had to use this stuff

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... out (if they haven't already), I implore you to read them. Take them in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  this time, I had already been here for two months. I knew how to navigate ... four star buffet on a broke college student’s budget. You walk in to ... about Maseeh and how great it was, so that was naturally their choice of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  way to get my passport to the west coast in 24 hours (mainly, I wasn ... students who are matching in the same year are guaranteed to be ... 's been a great four years in Beantown - but sorry, we're (hopefully) headed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  , but we never got to meet in person. It was cool finally getting to do ... in this screenshot. I like to keep count of how many steps I take a day ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  crowded to get to see everyone!) included professors Les Norford, Esther ... festivities. All that chocolate has given me great energy to continue ... long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the Safe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  . PS. Points to who can get the pop culture reference in the title. PPS ... getting snapped at by a vendor for analyzing the fruit too much, we began to ... pineapples, so of course, I used my trusty sidekick Google to get me through it

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place ... 's probably smart." Because when you get into a capital-g Great school, you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013