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• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  graduates scrolled across the screen to a long shot of the Infinite, I cried ... now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... was alive to witness it. And the current fear, anxiety, and uncertainty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale. Without further ado, I present my expression of feelings for the first semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is ... about prices, distance from home, community, and/or ability to perform well at MIT.     First of all, please   and let

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  Planetary Science Introduction to Planetary Science So, first, you would say ... Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative ... experienced my first flight cancellation ever. Puzzle Solution Follows. Are we

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... the first step on the road to recovery. My phone is a RAZR - not one ... next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of ... to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  Trivia: In Mandarin blogs, being first to comment is to get the "tou ... practice that is meant to bring good luck which entails being the first to ... this year. He related to me an individual who got straight A+'s his first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize ... directed towards FIRST participants but his message extends to anyone looking

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... , I wanted to highlight a few pieces of general advice I had :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  , I emailed and I messaged people, trying to get our first game ready by ... months. It was my first time living alone, actually alone, without anyone else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... to finally cross-register. Step 2. Figure out which class you want to ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  first things that come to mind tend to be engineering, mathematics, science, chemistry, and nerds. I myself thought this when I first applied to ... [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  journals in school, I would scribble all over the first page to break any ... Cambridge Half marathon last fall, I accepted. But first, I went on a run through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... according to Wikipedia: 546 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow Day? No Way! I'm totally counting down the days until the spring equinox.

  

  As you may have seen from Shannon's blog, everyone at MIT woke up to a rather snowy view outside. Here's what my fraternity looked like: Fortunately for me, my first class on Mondays is at noon. So the roads looked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Elephants? I see a lot of weird stuff around here.

  

  Court. I'm waiting for someone to put one on the dome. Coming soon: my first question/answer thread!

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 6, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first-year students. Housing differs across campus and we want each student to live where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers