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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  stake in the whole thing is general mechanical design, specifically as it ... -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... 1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a moment that I've constantly been replaying in my head in ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  convenient to work in between classes + I think is overall good vibes for a ... to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the ... makes NO sense. I should be showing you a normal day in my life - not some

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... parties, disowning parts of my previous self. It was a lot of fun, but in ... than an hour. In a similar way, I committed to working out: gym, twice a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7 ... summer jobs pre-MIT! Do what you love, whether that's working in a lab or ... in your every waking moment before college, and thinking about a career

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... with a noted weakness in logarithms and exponentials. The text reads ... ," (which is a longer version of 8.01 designed for students "with little or no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... 's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre ... in the #1 spot (East Campus 2nd, Burton-Conner 3rd…) and was notified a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  of course, weeks are a Social Construct, and really every day is just ... my friends also in the area, and/or a fun house event. By now, my ... able to get done. Sunday is also Bread Day around here!!!! In addition

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... walk into the room. This is my third instance of free food today, but I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  anyone who is interested in sustainability and/or energy issues should ... That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I ... record, we were indeed in a viewbook planning session - Saad you were right

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... competitions in that we only require a proposal, rather than a completed project in the application. We select 6 finalists each year, who will each

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  eight sections: the aptly-named "Life in Hell" (a photoessay of life at ... ! As a reward, here is an actual sneak preview of the book :) ABOVE: A ... thankfully proclaim: IT IS FINISHED! Oh thank goodness...... As Design Editor

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  story is... look for a majorly awesome update Tuesday night or thereabouts ... -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... test that I keep in a special place that I take out and read through and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... by Summer Moulder '26. Inspired by GetMIT by Mitchell Gu. Based on 2048

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... they work. Vivek Venkatachalam, a Senior in Physics and Electrical ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  a Toyota Corolla) and drive to my hotel. The hotel room I'm in is ... car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of ... before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... more artsy, and a lot are somewhere in between. But everyone does ... as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  presented to prospectives as like "here, this is a fun thing that may ... meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  -house rush is going on, and then tomorrow, freshmen will get to use me as free ... So REX or Residence Exploration began on Sunday afternoon with a kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005