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• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  year. Simultaneously, I’m excited to be in the same time zone as MIT and ... my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6 ... seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  to department open-houses, and declare a major in Physics. Putting the ... 're academically stylish and enter the Institute with enough panache and credits to ... decided to be undecided. This week, I'm a Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  human being—to bring them into the world. I’m told that this is a ... years now, and this is the only time my parents get to see us perform. You ... ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  discovered that there is much more to MIT than schoolwork and studying. He ... : Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after ... freshman over the course of a semester. You start ready to work and soon

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  research on what the VR trends would be in 2017 and found out that a lot VR ... be there, all the people I wanted to meet. Later that day, another one ... users. The Uber picked us up and took us to a helicopter landing station

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  that you wish to change from EA to RA. Financial Aid is a different ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  opportunity to practice right then and there in a situation that’s fully ... afterward and forgetting how to quite approach it. Getting that practice is ... confusedly, locates packet* Instructor: “Go!” And that was my introduction to

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  whole, maybe plan a few, and keep the rest that you want to try out in ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... year, there were 50 mentors, which is a lot to coordinate). Also, because

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student ... and Japan over the summer) Learning new skills at MIT (I’m a ... used a hammer --- and I’ve since realized that engineering isn’t even all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... black-and-white creature that I tried to convince my roommate, who is also ... ringtone to a bird chirping, but it was not the same. Also, it never woke me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  The Unified Theory, a.k.a Physics. That's right, it seeks to finish ... that there is no particle, that means somewhere we've been wrong and it ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  alone, and we think that is great. You do not need to submit a portfolio ... compelled to highlight a particular talent or skill that they believe is ... media in a way that our standard application is not. And while your Slide

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  students do well and enjoy MIT. Their goal is to admit a class that will be ... , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... the time and see printed in a bunch of books, but there are two bits of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  collection and open a critically-acclaimed art exhibit at the List Center. To start: (It's a fence, and there's a sky behind it. It represents the ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... tucked in the woods and right up next to a lake. Off to Canada we went… Day ... spend most of the day in, so we went to a diner, Walmart, and headed back

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  finding, moving in to, and living in Random Hall! It's a mixture of the move ... didn't register it was a dorm on the MIT Guide to Residence page and ... the walk down Mass Ave and thinking to myself "How far is this place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  in your near-adult life. Because there is just so much to do all the ... first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the ... in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019