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• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  is committed to bringing together scientists and engineers from these ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... /Baker tradition: the piano drop. According to The Tech, "The piano drop was first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  applications…and I had nothing but time to read them. Scarce hours of daylight ... steps into the kitchen to take a break. Was it a late lunch? An early ... was something of a blessing. It offered the opportunity to escape the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will be there to catch me if I’m anything less than conventionally

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the backyard. So clearly I picked MIT, and I wore an MIT t-shirt to school on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... the other bloggers have been blogging a lot, too!). To returning readers, thanks for sticking around, and to new ones, I hope you’ve been enjoying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get ... I decided to just film it instead. I present to you, what it would look like if you were an MIT student and went to the North End. Enjoy!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write, though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740 ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  to the hard part: actually putting together a schedule. MIT students ... factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  paint colors, things really started to come together. The final product ... things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator" is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  So I was going to draft this entry last night (I went as far as typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  those few days when I’d wake up to frosty dewdrops on the grass at home ... and beanies to protect your extremities, watch your step, and MAKE SNOW ... 'famline' structures. hackmit, the club i used to run, had our own set of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were ... ’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power has been devoted to “psets” and “midterms” and not Silly Girl Time, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  which finding and committing yourself to work you love is like romantic ... lingering doubts about going to grad school dissipated. there was a moment ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend ... . That's not to say that I didn't absolutely love every second of the ... . During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application ... to tell about sth you created!) Can I send it online?" I do think this ... about things. Alvin wrote, "Hi Matt, I would like to enquire if an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you ... very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005