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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  they can find out in a minute or so, before they pass you off to another ... ), and, after some housing algorithm magic, a couple months later you are ... dorms through Residence Exploration (REX) events, and you can choose to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  everything I can. If you've ever seen me near music, you'll quickly learn that ... Bhangra! Bhangra is a style of dance from the Punjab area of India, and it ... exercises done while holding onto a bar (but fancy and French!), adagio is a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... !”[/annotation] It’s like a lifelong game of iSpy. The ring is a great way to feel

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  what you want can be done out of the box with Disqus." Disqus is a ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name ... convention of @replies has entered our blogs by necessity. There is no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  this progress, and a place to show y'all (and myself) that you can really ... . For me, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. I started ... for a week, I can confidently say it feels SO much better than what I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  ...what's the word? Oh yeah, fun. To tell the truth, it can be a really frustrating hobby- ("Oh my God, where'd the page go? The whole thing is gone! I ... elimination. (I kid you not.) I made a list of all 20 some odd majors here at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... is heavily concentrated in two assignments (a small project and a final ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  a dairy farm and a huge castle where some of the most innovative and exciting art in Europe is created. Jane had a sound piece and Wanas several ... [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] I was once told, "If you come

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a ... 'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases ... number, and ATM machine. But if you want to be a functioning member of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  because you can learn a lot from each other. We had groups of people team ... your teammates is falling behind, you might try and slow a boat on the ... training. This post is about that. If you follow MIT Student Life on

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this ... usually means burning a lot of fossil fuels. We can trade pressure for heat ... you don't have to worry about re-contamination in transit. There

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  reading Vergil is like riding a bike, and you never forget? Maybe... I do ... life where you have to investigate why your brain is failing at doing ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Europe, there is a bit of an emphasis on the politics of race and migration ... freshman year. As you can tell, it was pretty stressful, but a lot of that ... note="is it because I’m a serial procrastinator? maybe

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  .  Little did I know the intensity of the workshop. The program is a ... much more. It opened a whole new world of what I can pursue as a career ... Arduino! A part of me is mad that I found out about the fashion and tech

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  -Wellesley partnership, there's a shuttlebus that runs directly between the two campuses ... your questions. Hope you're having a great weekend! ... For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT ... past 5 years so it is definitely a steep, steep learning curve and I ... usually do not, so I might miss a couple of things here and there but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

   and type in the password: mit-covid. Miss a class? You’ll be able to view a ... Today is Registration Day, or Reg Day, the day that MIT students sign up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  concept video with him. What is a concept video you ask? And what do heels ... heels is fun, It’s hard as hell but the best part about being a dancer ... section of music. There was a point when I was stuck on the murderous nature

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  ’s discretion. There were a lot of time where I wanted to stop doing some of my ... campus which attests to the fact that there is literally so much that can ... material. It is, in the big picture to me, a tradeoff. In comparison to last

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018