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• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  decided where you're going to live, REX is a great opportunity to find out ... for you [ed: in case you want to move via FYRE]. Most of all, REX is a ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: REX (Residence Exploration) is a fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this class. It's a HASS-D, it's a CI-H, and if you're Course 9, it's required ... Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  posted online here. If you’re looking for a place to start, below is a ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... 18 or so years you’ve already done amazing things, and you’ve learned a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  . Ling: "Why are you taking a picture of this sign?" Sam: "So I don't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you ... 10 least attractive college campuses. Is it hard going to school there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  like MIT: when you're there, you can feel the energy running through the ... , coming up in just a few weeks (can you believe it?). The weekend of MIT ... all the 5n Year Reunions (where n is a counting number). More featured

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure ... . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day ... represents everyone at MIT. but maybe one more perspective can help you make a ... everything. MIT is a place full of "unknown unknowns" -- things you don't even

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you ... incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... 7, 2011 : Take note (ahaha) of a few things: 1.) The reason you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  engineering school where people do / there's a good environment for startups ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... very appealing. Maggie: I actually had a phase in high school where I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  while. And, sometimes, a distraction is all you need to rediscover a sense ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... should always remember, but especially when you’re feeling a bit

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  and music lovers. You can probably find a band of any genre, and a ... big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT is located) and Somerville (which is a subway stop past Harvard). The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  you're feeling really hardcore you can take 18.01A which shoves all of ... ) that although sometimes hard to find, there always is a critical point ... into one week, and again, just like any other place, there isn't a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  opportunities out there for you. 4. And do I really want a PhD right now? Another ... , and I feel confident that there are a lot of jobs where my chemical ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  you can breeze through them like what a lot of people do first semester ... do whatever is comfortable for you. --- Whew, that is a LOT of ... observations from freshman year. (Also, this is conveniently before you have to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  MIT is. There's people everywhere, there's always something going on. I ... know there will be a group of my [annotation note="sisters in SK, my ... a mirror on my ceiling, because this is EC, and big colorful rug

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... , creating a simple strip sliceform piece at home is relatively simple. You don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  . If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... scared me a little bit. If you're Facebook friends with anyone between the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved ... and want to help guide them through their first year. We can provide a ... do a varsity sport, deciding where to live, where to eat, how to manage

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half thousand stairs, you could visit me in my gremlin cave, which is technically

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... ’m really happy here. There is simply a big difference between living with one ... funding. Many master’s programs are not free, so sometimes there is a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023