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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  statistical methods to diagnose a problem, we will first want to control for ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  something is the first step to being really good at something”. It’s a little ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild ... you have something horizontal to hold on to, which makes holding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  even a chemistry-biology major, as it was my first home. But coming to ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  those same qualities. Jot down the first answers that come to mind for ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  to create a new piece. When it was first being installed, there was ... [by Emma Frank '15] Before I first visited MIT, I envisioned it ... going to get the highlights (as defined by me) here. If you’d like

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  their first 8.01 exam and realize that if they're going to change the ... vicinity -- there's nobody to talk to. When freshmen first get here, they usually spend their first few days staying up all night talking to people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  know more about glassblowing than me, please feel free to let me know if ... class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat this class twice before moving to intermediate classes because it covers

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  't drink tap water from my dorm, I need to Brita it first. I can taste ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... information session, waiting to here all about two schools I've never been to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  , Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  the first time I've been able to contribute to a team effort, and I ... my UROP to experience Michigan and Collegiates for the first time. One ... Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first-years, or technically prefrosh as they aren't first-years yet, because ... prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  first two), started by Jonathan learning the critic’s monologue from ... legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... seemed like some Jonathan-like MIT kid who one day decided to write this

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

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  premise of the first one was literally just "mom said we have to get rid of ... involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  happened very quickly. I first heard about the program during the summer from an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... older couple from Bruges who are going to spend the next few months

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first ... first UROP at the robotics lab. In the same way that I had wanted to ... yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  liked the title and couldn't bring myself to change it. Actually, this ... 't wait to get back to MIT, especially considering that she took 6 classes ... to see what she's talking about--even though I live in a dorm with two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I ... 2005), holidays (in 2004, July 4 was the first holiday I took off

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006