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• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  at MIT. if i could do MIT over again, i think i would have been a hass major and a 6-3 minor (but i still would have done software). i'm going ... operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i'd had -- i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  USNWR (and we all know how I feel about that). The good part was that it ... presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... booths (as they would at a normal college fair) and then GC's come around

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is right now, like how i completely ignored my physics pset since i was drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  , the MIT admissions officers. Jeremie L. asked, "I'm curious as to how ... day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... to attend, and I wonder if parents are welcome as well? Will there be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to 10 (not a clue what they were rating, exactly...how awesome we looked ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  practical knowledge, experience, and vision. How would they react to our ... [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend ... about. Especially for a car guy. Espresso at 8 am: I'm awake. Sounds of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ="116487" /]   So yea I somehow learned how to snowboard that day and left with a ... reaches you, I’m sure you’ve probably grown in ways you would’ve never ... how hard psets really are compared to how I think they are as I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  So, being an incoming frosh, there's really not much I can talk about. Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  lifeguards, none of which I think Thoreau would have been that thrilled about ... I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I ... “go with the flow, ride the wave of life” mentality is so fulfilling – I ... to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  ." I hope that this gives some sense of how much was riding on the LHC ... blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  , making predictions on what it would say about MIT and how positive or negative it would be. On May 1st, I went to the screening with almost 20 ... -centric, and the discussion centers around student life. I was shocked to see how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  I'll be honest with you––actually, brief aside here, have you ever ... exploded. Anyway, as I was saying, I'm going to be honest with you (and ... every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  would work. I was half asleep when I wrote it. Faith is hard to come by ... battles too, no matter how poor the odds seem. I slept like a rock for 2 ... Man, it's been a while since I last blogged. I've been a bit hosed

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  . Amber: I’ve enjoyed the vibe every time I hung out with Arcturus. How ... , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing ... Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  it is closer to “how”). Initially, I thought that they (the powers ... ’t understand what other things could be causing something, how do I know what is ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  already has a concert scheduled there). Though I'm not entirely sure how ... did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] ABOVE: "How We Make Someone Invisible, 1" (2010): India ink on Mylar®. I will admit upfront that I am a bit, if ... Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010