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• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  - happiness with major vs employability - in the parent forums. Here's my tip ... for the last four years. I came in as a premed, somewhat intimidated by the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... blogs are not a partisan platform, and our office is not a partisan policy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year ... being totally in control of that process. All great games come from a

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

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  because that aesthetic was chic in 1970 when MacG was built. It consists of nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... leaned in to see beyond the thick column ahead. The clock struck four

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  -1pm, Hotel @ MIT The UFLC will be a forum for active student leaders ... violence in lesbian, bisexual and trans women. Open to the public Sunday ... need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of ... writing class"]email[/annotation] or Google Form in early August, then ... classes I’m taking this semester, but they're still in flux. Instead, I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January ... time to tag people in memes anymore??? or to even look at memes??? i felt

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get ... people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for ... ). Seriously. You don’t get “bonus points” or extra consideration by applying

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT ... .96 (Management in Engineering). Our class was split between graduate and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  scientific development. Other countries are becoming equally competititive in ... student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... , is a senior majoring in chemistry at Princeton, but when recruiters

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  my favorite room right now, in a one hour break between classes: 20.320 (Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems) and 7.18 (Topics in ... reminds me of my to-do list, which is in my to-do notebook, which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my ... 're in college. Fresh start, right? You'll make TONS of new friends. You

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... I saw her in “Desk Set;” she was witty, she was smart, she was strong ... disappear from our kitchen....), but none in the brownie department. Even

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people ... profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... my computer back on for the first time in weeks yesterday, and luckily ... /Treasurers/Important People in student groups on campus, where they will discuss how to apply

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  ’s his duty to chat about the Yankees and the Red Sox with the person in ... for the record that this is the first time in my four years I’ve been ... didn’t get their farecards in advance. Meanwhile, my sister and I, with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250 ... article came out in The Tech (MIT's newspaper) with the earth ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020