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• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... 'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I ... never intended to live in a meal plan dorm. I'm kind of picky about my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is ... . Kresge Auditorium. Hayden Library.  A quote I found in front of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... ! Me: I...yesss? I...I guess so? (I guess I have DNA in all parts of me ... 'm playing sine waves in the shower. i sincerely apologize and if you need me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ? In any case, when I heard that there would be a demonstration involving ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that ... " entry - I just got confirmed to be in San Francisco this summer from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  magic wand and have all my stuff moved for me, I would.) My boyfriend ... in A-Entry for the summer -- actually, strictly speaking, I had been living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of ... thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... 're in Lobby 7 at 77 Mass Ave (how easy is that?) you're pretty much set

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  school right now, otherwise I would ask him--is this computer terminology for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300 ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... incremental game I've played, is how well-designed the core mechanics are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  questions would you want to ask your future classmates? Like I said, we ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... '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

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start looking too late in the year), she asked me if I was okay with starting in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person ... contributed to MIT in so many ways that I wouldn't know where to begin. So, I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  thrown in whole, peel and all. Overall, I know how I feel—frankly, bad ... circumstances in this blog post would be particularly different if I were at any ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  were definitely my stronger subjects in high school, and so I figured I ... in mechanical engineering -- actually I got two degrees. I had so much ... . And then I was commissioned in the Navy, and I did underwater ship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... would've done something else with it. And at this point in your year

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... talk a lot about FIT & MATCH. Think of your application as you would

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  fare. So here I am, riding along through Central Square. I’m in the ... and started riding again. Otherwise I would’ve been late. Turns out ... 16 or younger, so I would’ve gotten off with just a scolding. But I won

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... rises, I can spot the hills in the distance. One day, I’ll snap out of my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... thought I’d be now, MIT would be the last place I would have said—if I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010