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• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... you expect to have a blast the entire time. You will have fun, but only ... really want you guys to like MIT and appreciate all the things it can do

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... drive up to a cabinet while navigating around obstacles and choose a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as ... Hahvahd University). Thanks to a raging downpour, the audience bordered on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  've dipped into this light-dappled jewel of a park where tendriled weeping ... a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  , from 9 AM to 5:30 PM four days a week (which I took last year). This ... 49 hours a semester, but if you want to be really good at your job you ... concert (which actually turned out to be a very bad mistake, because Tom

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... 18.02, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024, or 18.02A. If you want to review, you ... classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  honestly more of a long essay that happens to be bound than a book, but I got ... Gene by Siddartha Mukherjee (the sequel-ish to a book above) (was too ... -fi stories (!!!!), in a very organic way. Going to try and add to that~ Some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... dorm cooking is comparable to a three-Michelin-starred restaurant. With

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  came, where I had time to crawl up into a ball on my bed and sleep. For ... -recording a class. Freshman spring I wanted to fix that but overshot to the ... and I'd be working for three to four hours on a single problem on each

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... year. If you plan to live here over the summer, I'd recommend buying a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  ’t have the “right personality” to be a physicist.  Enter JLab. For the ... equilibrium and how to cope with that.” In a similar vein, JLab is “systems aren ... , and a part of that is engaging with students. Go talk to them!!! Getting

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day ... feel the urge to push through, keep hiking. I called for a stop about an ... ’d prolong being sick by at least a day. Finally I got myself to say, “Actually

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... for that. What do I really want to do? Shhhhhh I have two more years. A new half means a feeling of freshness added to old experiences. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went ... 't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  even something better. Fast forward a couple months to Fall semester after I'd committed to studying abroad... I don't think I've ever had a ... labs/reports and also an individiual project where I needed to make 40

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  note="I read a book once where the main character goes to a nighttime ... ’ll have more room to grow within MIT than out of it. When you leave a plant ... day later, in which I couldn’t manage to arrive at a museum in Venice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror, looking at nearly forty-year-old man in the mirror, where a bright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  to do with myself. Today was a day of different feelings. Hope ... had to run to class and I couldn't remember where my assignment was. I ... . Ten people that stopped in their lives to help a disoriented, highly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014