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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  you can punt your 7.03 p-set all day to code a wiki for Burton 1, and ... , and once for a one-hour lecture). This also means I am blessed with the glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  can reassign him to a dorm host. I chose to live in Baker House (a dorm ... cpw is dependent upon whether I can get assistance for transportation ... there really is a problem, I can still go and change my own registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an invitation to explore other options, and, like a puzzle, figure out how you can ... amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  . I missed MIT already - a place where I receive e-mails like this: "hey all, i'm sorry for the noise coming from the kitchen bathroom - i ... doesn't allow for a whole lot of off-campus adventuring.) I landed in DC

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  life compared to other students. For as long as I can remember, one of ... responsibilities, I missed a critical time in my youth where I could have molded ... When I think about my earlier angry tears, I can’t tell where my anger is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  car. In one sense, I am bringing the old me to a new place, where they ... suspect that I am looking forward to a whole lot of things I can't even name ... friends.   *METALLURGY!! I am signed up for a metallurgy advising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... the next step. (and for those that think I'm too verbose, please just ... I mean good for all of you and I'm not being trite or superficial. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  . Specifically, a class on medieval prayer books. Why? Well, for one thing, I ... Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... in town as well. And now that I'm not a freshman anymore, I can live

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  . Sreraman wrote, "can u name a few more from faculty commitee who make ad ... .wolf gang reads UG applications...Mit is cool!!!! can you name a few more from ... or for MITE2S, I can't talk too much about the selection process or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  last for maybe one post after this one. But, hey - a guy can dream, right ... lights division. My friend Chris '09 and I rented a Zipcar for a day at ... "blocks" that I know I can implement individually. For example, the two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  I think the saying "a penny for your thoughts?" is really rather ... meaning of "a penny for your thoughts" will necessarily change too. I won ... , when I offer "a penny for your thoughts," what might that mean? I invoke

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike ... overall displacement? Zero. Lately I've felt a lot like that latter book ... am awake is spent going back and forth from the building in which I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  of my time. There's a time I can recall Four years old and three ... relax for a little bit, I’d set aside some time to work on some grad ... realize that I forgot to do a micro-quiz for [annotation note="theory of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  . I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word ... short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  that you should read.) A week later, I received an email from the Music ... happened that evening: (From here onward, I will omit the audience for ... to the ringtone. For a moment, I tuned out the conversation as I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... , but that's a story for another time. (I guess that's pretty much it. I ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  apartment. I browse Reddit for a bit. The top post on the front page is from r ... the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  . Weekends are for recharging. Where are you, PNR? *hosed: in a constant ... home until I was back. It felt like a totally different place, for better ... hunker down into training mode. I quickly transitioned from cramming for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  , I will put off other topics for later blog posts, where I can properly ... School of Architecture. For a minor, I may choose either CMS - Comparative Media Studies or Course 17 - Political Science. In a year, I went from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015