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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed ... work for at all yet. I guess it's important to actually know how to ask

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Very Important Announcement i promise this is not clickbait

  

   

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Rome! Gelato, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Vespas for an entire week.

  

  In about 6 hours, I'll be boarding a plane and going to... ROME! Seeing as I haven't packed or exchanged money yet, this blog entry will have to stay short but look out for entries live from the capitol of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  interview lasted for 2 hours and I left it disappointed it had to end. I say ... . That's why I consider them so so important to the application. Not just ... you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into ... felt (enlightened) after the show. But I struggled to write anything that I felt truly encompassed what the show was about. So I reached out to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  important of an update to not post imminently. I went back to visit my ... medication before all of the travel, but between the hour long drive to the ... of the 6-hour red eye flight from SFO to BOS, I got maybe a total of 30

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  -problems, it is very important to keep an open brain and not think you know ... to do this school's brain-work for 50 hours a week like I did when I ... was 12 hours shorter. It is fun to play the Big Game 16 hours a day for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis for help over AIM -- she patiently explained to me how to solve it, but I remained confused. I'd already taken half an hour of her time, so I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the grocery guide posted in May. This time, she writes about college ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... . Unfortunately, there is none. You can certainly can try to help your chances. You

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start until 8:15 because I needed nearly an hour to flat-iron my hair and apply

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... kidding! I still called my mom whenever I was sick. I still talked to my ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  tour guide) for this statistic So, if you get the chance to be around ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  touching somebody else's airplane. This is important when you have 80 teams ... paraded their airplane into the hangar, it was common to overhear good ... , and compliments about everything from the landing gear design to the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  ! Everyone is nice, calm, helpful, and quick to guide me when I have questions ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... , and they too weren't able to finish their (pretty much fully completed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... didn't seem as important as calling Ryan, my 10-year-old brother, up on the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  me to be for the three or four hours when school was over and work wasn ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  found a great pset group to work with, started going to office hours ... the things which are very important to me that I couldn't do this ... each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  . But there are only 168 hours in a week, and I also need to eat and sleep ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013