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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... did get me into the learning zone. I didn't expect that the audience to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this ... community to participate in what was happening. So did many other people, and ... registration initiative that allows anyone to register to vote in Massachusetts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... . This wasn't something that I considered when moving in, but being able to ... the hall, but it matters to me so it’s on the list. Last year in Baker

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  special program that teaches new immigrants how to speak English. In his ... material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... roommates at MIT. In addition to helping with the Infinity camp in June, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... class relevant to students' daily lives, and (b) how MIT policy affects ... satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... Mark Wahlberg anyway, so there. I still get to talk about the mystery

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  , pretending that they were the people whom you wanted to get funding from in the ... 's distracting me from 2.004 studying). Here's how it started, with an e-mail to ... TO: Elizabeth, Michael would you two be interested in presenting

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... MIT. Dreamers can continue their studies in the U.S. thanks to DACA ... , subject to renewal every two years and only in effect for the duration of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an ... doing a virtual dog simulator. Excited to see how these startups do. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  you’re not sure what I mean, allow me to tell you about my check-in ... was a ridiculous amount to see and take in. I could sample any color or ... that contributes to how the overall campus felt (har har, more theme

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... on back order (in my head, since it got DELETED), but I just wanted to ... week's topic in a virtual conference (you're literally talking to about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My ... had to leave campus, and the resulting panic will go down in some ... some media to glue together in the event that a virtual CPW [annotation

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... high school, getting into MIT, moving to campus, etc. I haven't gotten used to how quickly life can change, even if the anticipation for the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... are buffet-style, allowing you to get as much food as you want from ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  me "how did you get into walking?" The first answer that comes to my ... take in the city and surrounding areas and to get out of the Cambridge ... in terms of walking and public transit; it helps me get from point A to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... dropped my ice bucket. (Luckily it didn't spill, so I managed to get out of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005