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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... amount of time to classes every moment where I could have fun was a nice ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  graph’s title—in this case, a single word—can affect how people report its ... refers to where people focus when viewing an object; Zoya’s work in this ... beach for the first time! Hopefully, if I keep doing good research, I can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I ... event, and "How Many Feet Can You Eat" Subway eating event.  But I still

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... (those logs in there are actually trees, and I'm standing a good way back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  least you can say that it's different." Myself? Well, I think the Stata ... inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  yellow.) I read this in the middle of my graduate school apps, a time where ... important to me? I feel this very strongly in this COVID semester, where it ... confident in what I want out of life? I don’t know. But all I can do is keep

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... classically mortifying high-school-cafeteria-where-on-earth-do-I-sit dilemma

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in ... *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... Facebook in like, the last month, there's this thing going on where you write

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ="IAP = Independent Activities Period. In January, MIT has a brief J-term where you can ... sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... can explain why. I have this very specific picture in my mind. I ... groups are suddenly smaller. It wouldn’t be like MIT, where I live in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  in September and resume my life as an MIT student. Until then, I can ... was "I went to the mall and bought a pretty shirt." So, in my fifth semester at MIT, I enrolled in German I. My high school math teacher had told

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  same professor that I’d had in Brazil. This was too tempting, so I am now ... off each other, and I'm excited to see where this goes. I'm also hyped ... about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... Minnville, where I've lived almost my whole life, and spent a frenzied week saying ... was leaving. I'm in love with Oregon, and I'm obsessed with my family

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  bodybuilding buddies at the gym next to where I lived, I found time to contribute ... working in Mexico City, I got to go home for three weeks, the longest ... . Being at MIT is like living in a bubble, but it is definitely a bubble I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022