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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few cross country team dinners; it’s where MIT students say they’d like to order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  where you think to yourself you must have missed a few lectures because you have no idea where to start with Problem 1, Part A. This is really ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... able to get a copy of the book. For entertainment, the party had a "Make ... sidewalk outside Fenway Park hoping to get tickets to a game that highlights

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  memory. Sorry it's been a while since I've had anything substantial to say ... two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth ... decided a better course of action for my life would be to leave MIT and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  to ride it where I like." Having a bike makes getting anywhere else in ... --just find a half-hour break in classes. If an old friend wants to meet you at ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  It's May 1st. Most of your friends have decided where they are going to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is a little harder for your situation. You may be overwhelmed thinking

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  the most important choice of all. You have to find a way to let go of ... soul returned to us in the bottom of a cup of tea, to find myself lost in ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  . I joined clubs where I was able to find a great community of friends ... become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where ... ." "Mentorship is always the responsibility of the mentee." "Find a job where you ... we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice ... , giving me exactly half an hour to look somewhat decent, chomp down a ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send ... us know that you wish to be considered for a blogging position. As most ... 't currently have a blog and you want to be considered, you should probably start

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it probably wouldn't even qualify as a city. Where is it? Up in the ... Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... country? Yes! Well technically it's a principality, or according to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Per Child, or MIT's Public Service Center - to name just a few - for ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  not to stress. If you do find yourself getting stressed, take a step ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to ... exam with 2 other people. I was terrified to find that there was a packet ... favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  ’s not about finding the right answer to a problem. My only job is to ... about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... Haus (where I lived as a freshman) and at Theta Xi (where I live now). As ... like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  a place where I could potentially live and work. I plan to keep ... Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech ... plant for the western U.S.; this project led to a future publication at

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011