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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... . Former hotel. Don't know much since I'm not a woman, but seems to house

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... as I unpacked my suitcase in August (also, my parents visit me so much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  , accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program, among ... girlfriend in Washington D.C. It wasn't until a couple days before leaving that ... decided someone important was in the restaurant. We did eat at a relatively

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a freshman-- How are you doing in your intro classes? How much sleep are you ... is my compilation of his response, in no particular order: 1. Always

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  ." At MIT, she is getting a minor in writing, loves poetry, and ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor ... into the world! Look how beautiful it is! Plus, I know how much I learned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is ... ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  each week they invite a guest scientist who is in some way prominent in ... pursuit of a career in science. Maybe all being ambitious means, for me, is ... Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  , though, is how to format a résumé as a freshman. You've just graduated from ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  time spent painting in the welcome center is a much-needed and ... mural is pretty much just a painted-on-a-board version of the 2025 tube ... MIT Borderline. Borderline is a student-run club (which Danny and Allan

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  branching structure is more linear. It's governed by the passage of time. In A ... 've seen it by now. Three plays: Maybe that's how life is. There isn't* a ... like it's stuck in a loop. The third, and most impactful, is the number

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for ... back, and mine is bright red. I don’t actually mind the rain much

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high ... . What I mean is, if, hypothetically speaking, everyone in a class got an A

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  LED strips, and a massive battery, and spent much of our free time that ... Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical ... a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in ... ". . . free for the night, what do you want . . . " Things are a little different at MIT. Not in a bad way at all, in a hilarious way. Since my first

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

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... your undying love for trashy TV!) 2) How much does going to Interphase ... , but hey, don’t judge!). On top of free housing, you get a little plastic

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  diligence Look how far you’ve fallen You, a victim of time and circumstance I, a player in a perfect tragedy Vibrant prose dances sentences And dulls ... far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  . . . well . . . it seemed annoying, and I wasn’t really sure how much the ... ="617"] Note that this is in NZD and is about three thousand USD ... March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Hello from Georgia! We had a fantastic meeting last night in Atlanta ... must choose a username that is between 3 and 8 characters. Choose a ... ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  activity is limited to a few hours of talking to friends every now and then ... , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... . the excitement i had for my classes is pretty much gone; my Chinese

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020