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• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  people; yet, despite interacting with more people in a day than I would in ... exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... City, where I live in an apartment in the Lower East Side. Every night, I ... feeling of "solidarity" with any city that I have lived in, if you get my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that ... pouring outside. I didn't want to walk in the rain or call an Uber, so I ... I thought this endorsement meant that the black rice would be life

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... because when I devote time to one thing, it seems like I’m losing ground in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my ... seeing how its structured. We've only had one lecture so far, so I don ... /applicable to anything I do in the future. That's it for now - planning on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... how my academic life would be like died out within maybe 3 semesters of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... the first one there! I suppose there's a lesson in here somewhere: no ... just as committed than you are. I think this is actually a good thing, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  is how I deal with my problems. Alan: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt ... became 60 items, which would put us in first place with a fairly ... Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  existed! People live in houses! Dogs exist! Babies exist!" Here, I am ... teenage dream. I've just always loved art and design and cities, and in the ... , interning in China allowed me to really step back and re-evaluate what I want

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... involved I could be was how much time and effort I was willing to put in. 3 ... large scale, I learned how to design a rocket and run simulations in Ras

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... faculty and the school in general, Dr. Kornbluth talked about how getting ... In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  wish I could tell you myself how wonderful it was but unfortunately I was ... many blessings that God has given us. Even in the midst of MIT, I kinda ... "Delicious food" "Better than home" "My favorite dorm event" "I was

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... , as I sat on the T, I would note down everything I had worked on that ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... student would answer the way I did just the other day to the question, “Do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... . When I was nineteen, in October of my junior year, I was learning to live ... ?! COME ON," I said, at the same time as a single other person in the room

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  extra questions on the spot, which we also delved in to. I’ve never ... be in a space where I could see my impressions of my peers’ work ... examining the flaws and strengths in each others’ writing. I’ve been in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... . It would be him, me, and Dan '11. "Sure, why not?" I replied, and one $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would ... in this class. Had I not take 6.034, I honestly would have quit ... Aaaaaaaa **class that I cried in/cried over/broke down over S Tier (Favorite Classes

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023