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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  could stop at the top of the waterfalls to eat our lunch and relax for a ... the wheel, and although he frightened us at times, it was a lot of fun ... at the head of the trail had finally found the Nancy Cascades! They

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled ... cheaper prices, at Shaw's (a supermarket off of Mass Ave), or at La Verde ... trained at the Hawthorne Institute of Martial Arts. During my time there, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... while at MIT, the school offers us the opportunity to be as happy as

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  leaders at the Museum of Science where we will be testing, and in the next ... procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  lot of people all at the same time during freshman orientation, but ... there says MIT CSC). We have a tradition of taking at least one photo ... worth it to have met that one person, Ruby W. ‘18 at Colorado School of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... complete overhaul, probably exceeding in terms of potential transformation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... paradoxes at the intersection of math, music, and art, and their implications ... Summer 2015, I’ll think about the snapping turtle at Walden, the peak of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  snippets at MIT without posting any of them? Lucky for you, there's a ... "Overheard at MIT" and it's just a huge list of conversation bits that people ... competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy-to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  offer! Each one also has an array of microphones built in, which allow us to make high-quality studio recordings at the click of a button without ... of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  that you take advantage of what we have to offer. And if you end up at a ... class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone ... . But last week, I hit a stroke of luck in my search, at one of LCE

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things ... undergraduate advisors. (All of the classes at MIT are taught by PhDs, and those ... conclusion, biology at MIT rocks. Postscript to that -- The administrator of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour ... charged to your semester meal plan. We offer a variety of cuisines (even ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  't graded; everything depends on the final (the Tripos) at the end of the year ... idea of what being at MIT would be like. The previous summer, I ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is ... overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  the kids? Too few of them were looking directly at the students using ... It’s summertime @ MIT! I'm relaxing at home after graduating last ... few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  usually performs in snuggies and Waldo costumes (check them out at one of ... Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a bunch of nerds who always wear hoodies and jeans!). Tonight, Kappa Alpha

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013