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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a ... . Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  just a babby sophomore, my floor had a gingerbread decorating party. It was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected group of 1e residents with a small social budget. What started as a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet ... to you to deserve that kind of treatment? Have a friend read your ... ’ve wanted to check out, or read a novel that isn’t assigned, or throw an

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play ... square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... to my school once to give a lecture, and I could totally tell that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  have a spare copy of Twilight lying around. Since it held no value to us ... flattened, we naturally decided to indulge in a little Twilight bashing ... entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  chance to capture a few videos of performances, one of which you can check ... A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... you just called your friend a wuss. Now add "ter" to the end. Wuss ... . Snively Advice Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Don't sound like a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  your beliefs about the number 7.) I took this as a challenge to ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... 's what I like to see on a problem set. :) ... into strands of spaghetti. Our professor obviously had a good time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  asked the communications team to begin thinking about developing a new MIT ... website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... LOVED IT. We had a duty to our readers to come up with a way to offer just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... back to a "Classes First" mindset when I'm so ready to work and make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... on my research and to [annotation note="to be a teaching assistant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  if I need it makes me feel secure enough to try for a little longer and ... should make that a blog post!" So here it is, a lil post about how crazy 6 ... [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a ... wall, as well as a petrified Mrs. Norris (the cat). They’re trying to ... , but I was happy to hear a couple of my friends saw them that night, lit

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015