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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... example, wrote: "I didn't know about the anime club. I would have never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... like Elvis, but.... Here I am with my very own personal Clay. Sort of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to ... ’t sure if I knew the whole story. Understanding how life might be different for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought ... .  Dance. I kind of want to try out for Dance Troupe??!! I think DT would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  confused by how absurdly different life is for different people i probably ... , regardless of how awful it may be of course the key word in the previous ... the only complaint i could come up with was that sometimes they would

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  selected idea and how we would move forward.  Right after that, I went ... hangers on it. My teammate Remi and I went together, and we were taught how ... what I would imagine the fire bending from Avatar the Last Airbender to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  I get a chance (maybe when I next answer questions in a day or two?) I ... Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the ... process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  world works In a class I took last semester, we would often be assigned ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning ... place. And how many days have I've sat until my butt was sore and finally

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... Physics , I'm struck by how much this place seems like an academic ivory ... pure science in the class The Science Essay (which I highly recommend

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  world and consider how I'm taking steps (however small) in the right ... would not have known that I could and do inspire others in a way I don ... covered in the curriculum, but I do remember how our group facilitators sat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Florence!   So I don't know if you could tell, but I was teaching in Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... 't blame the polar vortex, this time it was all me. In the JFK layover, I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . I'm not sure if the TEAL would help me learn better, but it's an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  in my head, I was planning how I would update my resume. One cover ... a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful ... basically the moment I read it, there was no question in my mind that I would

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... play that game. And even if I did, it would only be in the summers. But ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  how much I would be making. I’ve been on the other end—I’m weirdly ... summer because I'd know more people in the city/the intern program would be ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016