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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  part of the city that I had never been to before, and found new haunts ... looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours ... lot of s's in that word) a semblance of normalcy, and MIT appears much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that ... . MIT is likely not the best place to be if you know that writing is your

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  . The handling end is for the spinner to control the fire, and can be any ... spinning to redeem myself and wipe that talk from my memory. [caption id ... fuel dump area from the spinning field and a double bucket system in case

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  here and there, like the stray rodent of Loop kitchen that vacuums trash ... 'm ridiculously close to NR'ing it. For the past semester and a half, I've been ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about ... .616 - Games and Culture (blogpost pending) is a class on the role of ... blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to ... Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... because a meat blob full of electricity and chemicals is telling me to do it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But ... -doc and my primary mentor for the summer. After introducing me to a number

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  (and maybe a little text here and there) So pretty much July 4th was all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker ... names, and in the true spirit of MIT, a friend said: Friend: If I had a

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  makeup on and showed up at the gym an hour and a half early. After running through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z-Center pool to cheer briefly for the water polo team. (We will, as a general

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ... 14.121 homework and studying for a 14.121 final exam that is worth ... forward to the weekend and to completing a first draft of a short story for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... The last two years has been a musical journey that D. Bae '15 and Matt O ... is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  then learn that it is the difference between crystallization and glass ... to make a snowman, and no one seems to mind. [] Punting with the ... account is only applicable to my own department (materials science and

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned ... socialize. Eventually I learned that if I went to the library and worked in ... you can determine that, the better off you'll be. 3. A social life is

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the fats, the carbohydrates (A) and amino acids (B) react to form some crazy ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the ... , tried out for a cappella groups, played sports, and more. The formal welcome to the class is the Freshman Convocation, where the freshman class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  like a journal club, and the other large project for the semester is that ... Systems]: I have to be honest. This is the course that I am most ... the school’s library that focuses me and allows me to get more things

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of ... definitely sounds like a lot, and it is a lot, but I’m a bit sad that the ... semester without dropping the class, that is… Classes 6.036 - Intro to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005