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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  CPW where I will actually be a juggling homeless person in The Guy Who ... ’t allow personal wheels in classrooms. Fortunately, my unicycle is only a ... year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... living with a faulty internet connection, today is the inauguration of 44th

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... students who harbor a menagerie of other animals. What started off as an ... to bring a cat to college," said Lubin, who spent her high school years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you ... academic events across campus.  Getting a feel for what MIT is like in the ... like each day as a student who is hosed with tons of problem sets and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my ... who invented the lolcat is coming!" "Yes, we heard Snively" "Did you ... 't recognize them at all in person. I grabbed my badge, bought a t-shirt and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  comments is the new trend in science, so I've heard. A subtle yet heartbreakingly crucial property of summer projects is that they tend to exist in ... -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

   formals: Bombergiving, a Thanksgiving formal my floor throws, Mocha Formal, in which Mocha ... Time flies. Today is August 6th, 2020. It's been 143 days since I ... were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the ... universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  community is amazing (stay tuned for a post about that in the next few weeks ... so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... .100A has been very helpful (I can actually do psets), and 9.00 is

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I ... button up this coat. The responses came in! "Rona just add a zipper ... coat outside in the process, to create a collar). then the buttonholes on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  .[/caption] OTTO (Dinner) OTTO is a pizzeria from Maine. It's a popular free food ... much as some people have in their first semester. Even my sister, who has ... went to Veggie Galaxy for brunch. Veggie Galaxy is a traditional American

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  commute again and email is a thing. Step 9: Attach said signature to your ... taking a continuing education class, you know, the ones for people who aren ... actually happening right now and go in person to the class (which is almost

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  owned- so we go on all the rides in both parks for free on our lunch ... , You do realize that General Relativity is a very advanced physics course ... Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  see what its about! Disclaimers: it works best in chrome it is a ... mailing list about a really cool IAP internship opportunity offered in ... work the next day! Living Situation Stochastic Labs is actually a big

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it ... grapeIf you can sit in a barrel, maybe I'll waitUntil that day I'd rather ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  (Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology) This course is a student ... experience in communicating through a digital format. Enrollment limited ... discussion and a lot of peer review throughout the project. We participated in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... public transit, which is basically free at around $1.75 a ride? sometimes i ... that make up a perfect breakfast"]leisurely eat breakfast in the office

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... . That name is Harvard. Harvard has another feature, known as a wide ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of gender imbalance in STEM fields, Women’s and Gender Studies offered up a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on ... event is held on campus, you are free to come and go as you please, but

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017