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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  engine room where they feed it babies, or so I assume. Ok but seriously ... physics (in which case, I'll have to switch my major). The interesting ... ,at MIT you can do an IROP (close cousin to the UROP) study there If I

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

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  's a math recitation. Eh, I can't understand that guy's accent anyway ... , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it ... I need in order to understand what's in store. I dare to challenge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people ... variants mean in terms of ending the pandemic * What we can do now to ... a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  likes playing games that I can play over and over. When I made the Slay the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300 ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  -registration sometime soon. For probably the first time ever in blog history, I can give ... in so many ways that I can’t even begin to put into more complex words ... ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  as early as you can! But since I was in such a time crunch, I printed ... guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  like a great big puzzle, and one where I can’t ever see all the pieces at ... .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I ... [annotation note="I took a similar class in high school by cross registering

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different ... questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... '15 is in Au Bon Pain right as I'm walking outside from my interview

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  find work I can absolutely lose myself in and put every beautiful thing I ... school, and I wanted to make sure I kept at it at MIT, where I was in such ... ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  ’ll be happy in the moments where I feel like I’ve learned something. If I ... 21E. It may happen slowly, where semester after semester I take a few ... relationships. And a sense that I have not worked on anything deeply fulfilling in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... sign-offs, regardless of the context. I think you can't go wrong with ... emails I sent during my term, where things were particularly difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... couches, and working in the study carrels or cubicles. Once I saw someone ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up ... day -- and I still needed to train in between everything as well. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up, in the Bernard Baruch housing projects on the Lower East Side. What ... daughter. "I can find one of those cheap places to stay and I can spend the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... classes where I hear wildly, wildly different things from different people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  Sherlock Season 3 is really bad. 3) This blog post, which I re-read in order to answer an e-mail. Hysterical: - the line "I can't type endless text ... -children. Other people from who knows where Furniture by IKEA" I met Cam during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  , both ours and prospectives, a carefully designed space where they can ... ? and we want your help in answering them. In the comments below, I would ... admissions). These things can be technological (i.e., a particularly nifty way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009