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• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  most forest-y, most outdoors-y place you've ever been to, and dump a few ... 's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what ... it, every week with a test coupled with at least one or two p-sets has

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... gathered on Kresge Lawn for a typical, fun picnic. And by “typical” I mean ... , without notes, timing it with a stopwatch) and it doesn’t go too well. That

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  After going through a quarter-life-crisis and switching a lot about ... math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with ... , passion for problem solving, mathematical exploration, and experimentative

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  're hanging out with and ask them, "Fiver for your thoughts?" Like, sure, that ... something rare—and, in the eyes of the world, thus valuable—for a peek into ... might take to get my hands on a penny for that opportunity. And weirdly, I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  , and meet with my mentor for updates and advice. I've shared the research ... department lounge has a computer with free Hulu, Netflix, and HBO. Majors and ... for a minor in this one, which is a new development, with five

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  , 3 syllables, and a literally self-explanatory spelling, even official ... way to tour a startup, and the lunch boxes scribbled with calculations ... ) lack of physical conditioning and folded over, panting. We stopped for a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  outs and do's and don't's of being a panelist. Week 3: panel I ended up ... Shayna A. '23 where we basically sat in a Zoom room for an hour and chatted ... ended up working with the Undergraduate Association (UA) on a project for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , and sound systems." As a final project you do a field study with ... , and more generally, techniques for studying how the brain works as a ... I ate lunch today with Mollie, and we talked about different classes

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  from last year and made [annotation note = "You know who you are <3"]a ... bookends. And I got a very nice photo of myself with them too! Thanks go as ... a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three ... straightening and aligning and buttoning that can be awkward for someone in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  and chairs, but they didn't look very comfortable. Lucky for me, I work ... blankets, and not a lot of stereotypical MIT. 3) Thursday night. TONS of ... Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  pset sounded both friendly and scary. A week to do a whole homework ... the most part. Also, it seems tetazoo glounge died out a bit, and for ... written for CI-H (across 3 essays) Essay writing is a mixed bag for me

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  worked both terms for credit. You can't get both money and credit for a ... when I got here, I began looking for a job. One of the cheerleaders ... during IAP, and 10 hours a week during spring term. (For those of you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  've worn many hats with the student groups i've worked with, and i wouldn ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won ... keep a meeting going. i've learned that meetings can get filled with a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a ... : Complete by 2000 The mission was scheduled to begin at 1800, with a tight

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  by a kind passerby[/caption] And then met up with more friends to take ... middle school and it's incredible that we both ended up at MIT :3. photo by ... about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  and/or poop, or 3) dry and understated. PDL is a combo of 1 and 3. In ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... schools, met with students and parents, and just spread the good word about ... suggestions for me? A: I know that the application process can be really nerve

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  , 9 weeks old (cared for and photographed by Kristen Y. '19) Drinks: I ... for Trump—that’s where they wined and dined us with the company’s top ... , shoes, and jeans, and a fancy men’s shaving kit. My room looks like that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay ... into it -- Dave is a mechE major and has no idea what a sheep brain looks ... , for instance, I had to write that my cumulative GPA was a 3.5, even

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006