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• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  , decide which one you'd really like to live in based on meeting the people ... pastimes to relieve stress is smashing fresh coconuts with a mace, so we ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  judgment on whether these parts are no longer who they are, it is just a ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it? is it? but a second, more skeptic thought going, it can’t be, it can

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  of the dorms) built a roller coaster in their courtyard that prefrosh ... Act, which is a club that puts on a full-production play for CPW. I ... Cambridge) is such a walkable city, and I hate driving, so a good chunk of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  . Sleeping overnight in the public areas of a House (e.g., lounges) is ... order of preference. Each freshman is assigned a "temp" room based on ... questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  to is a composition of numbers. In general, when we need to get in ... need numbers. For music. The number of beats in a song is regulated by ...   I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... .  Even better, there is no standardized system for determining who gets to ... who need that class to graduate, then based on descending class year and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  in the Griffith Lab which is part of the Biotechnology Process ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  Maison Française," "MIT Classes," and "MIT Extracurrics" are now all in a folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... was today" and wishing me a happy birthday. In the e-mail, he also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  . In August, the EECS office then notified everyone who was accepted, at which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a ... definitely a long-term project in a research direction that the lab is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  who is happy to have sex with you whenever you think that’s a good idea ... in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... really interesting in your class—say, that penguins engage in a form of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , and write about, a sociotechnical artifact — whether this is a bot, a ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... recently started charging to use their API so I switched to a free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... on that in a minute) you're bound to find a group of people with whom ... is, well, convenient. For a long time I thought this was a men's only

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  ). In the leadup to cruftmas, the hall is always frenzied with a dozen ... from last year and made [annotation note = "You know who you are <3"]a ... working on is embracing spontaneity a little more, which has... uh... never

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  Huawei P7. Huawei is a smartphone brand that sells widely in Africa and ... sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this article)~ And it is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some ... you're interested in a club sport, feel free to email the captains of ... This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  Circle (like the ones in Berekeley and Boston) is a gathering of K-12 ... in on a high school math class taught by Zuming Feng. Dr. Feng is the ... Hampshire. The class is a proof-based number theory class and is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in

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

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit about the event and this is what he told me: "The Next House Thanksgiving dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  will leave MIT with the background that is essential for any leader who ... research. In her speech, President Hockfield cited a report that showed that ... economy — in energy efficiency, energy savings and in new technologies — a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009