Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only ... actually had plans to be a TA this term. But due to the upheaval of my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be news ... to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  have done so, and have decided not to do a post of my own, because you ... desperately to get my kids to remember who I am, I logged in to publish an "I'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  states where it is illegal to do what at a gas station? 5. What famous 1972 ... replied, with a laugh, "I actually told him to put that in the speech! I ... Alton Brown in the picture identification round. Overall, a great way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... has to be 10 ft long, with a 2 ft wide deck and 2-3 ft clearance above

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... might have been a little imposing to have Schrock as a professor, since ... you fail to field a team. Well, you can't ever waste money, ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... rehearsal twice a week. Also, playing in fewer pieces means less music to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... as you reply to this email? I am currently replying to you as I eat a ... , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided to do a dual blog post about our CPW experiences - hers as an excited ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  openness to talent, and a long tradition of national service — I believe ... strongly urge the president and Congress to find a path that better serves us ... the road to a productive career. They are undocumented through no fault

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn ... ,[/annotation] or ‘monomyth’, characterized by a call to action, descent to another world, challenges that lead to a reckoning, and various stages of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  a tremendous responsibility since, well, we've never not had a dorm to ... were given a room in Maseeh as an option, in addition to Saxon Court, a ... freshmen are probably less inclined to attend events for a dorm that will

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  I'm hoping to make a habit out of occasionally interviewing members ... . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... a thesis for my program, and the profs - from day 1 - tend to scare

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the moment. As a disclaimer, we wanted to make the DITL as interesting and varied as possible, so we each selected a different day to document based

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT ... to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says a scholarly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  time to vacation as a family again like this, they decided to make it a ... Medical, but suffice it to say that several xrays and a diagnosis of torn neck muslces later I was boarding a plane to Seattle in a neck brace. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a ... ways to think about chance as a function. (12 units) 21W.774 [The Art of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to me! I was left scrambling at the last minute to try and get into a ... ahhhhhhh I just wanted to writeeeeeeeeee! And then I had a realization: I

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020