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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  where several rooms are lined wall to wall with moderately new books at ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time, and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli ... ! We even got to take a series of prom pictures! We also took

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then become a doctor. I was going to rock out at my classes and a bazillion

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  Disorientation. It's a tradition for seniors to return to the place where they went ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  metabolomic data (two huge data sets with a lot of unknowns), I can start to ... endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that ... good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it ... right. I checked the reviews and the XS turned out to be a sweet camera

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have to have a co-signer if you're under 18." I was like, "I AM TWENTY ... for the show I had to wear stilettos and a backless slinky gown and sing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... ... it's usually possible to find people up and around campus at any hour ... they complain, I like to give them a blank look, as though the concept is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be ... about to fight with a tiger (though sometimes getting through MIT felt ... to get good seats, but we just waltzed right in. A view from my seat

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a ... to students and fellow admissions officers that this is a relatively ... example, a father and daughter drove from rural Idaho to see my meeting in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... mental leap was a much longer one to make. Inherent in the word, research is a repeated effort to search for new information and new ideas, and

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time ... MIT as a place they could apply to, be admitted to, and afford to attend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  , lots of chemical engineering, and oh, a fraternity. I tried to stifle a ... describing a solution to a chemical engineering problem that involved dozens of ... did not give it any though. Realize that the ECs are there to find out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... use a tachometer to measure the motor rotational speed as a function of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  , there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do ... addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release ... much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016