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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . 10:49 -- Shouts of "Oreos at front desk?" abound from down the hallway ... . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  culmination of almost everything I've studied at MIT, from computer architecture ... Processing) This class is one of the most fun classes I've taken at MIT. Not ... write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  paid a small amount by the company, but at the end of the competition one ... January is IAP (Independent Activities Period) here at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... 'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... you to better understand the ROTC programs here at MIT.   ROTC is more ... laboratory, infantry officer school followed by command of an Army or Marine

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be ... at MIT. It’s not as if all of my friends are doing something, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  on the way back at 5 am. Sadly, MIT doesn't have either of these papers ... existed. These schools all get to offer their students privledges at MIT ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... : "At MIT, we seek to develop in each member of our community the ability ... A few months ago the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  talking about the general excitement of being back at school. It was so nice ... . But seeing the way that the MIT DPhiE chapter is at the forefront of ... endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this ... dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend ... -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion ... lot of time on. Start by looking at what you’ve spent the most time on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Bombers move off the floor in their four years at MIT, and all of them ... classes ranging from 1969 to 2018 were at the 50th anniversary of our annual ... good portion of REX hanging out with the Bombers at their events, however

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... if you have any real problems but at least your summer will be in order

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  me at least start answering a lot of my questions about life and impact ... guided by a definition given at the beginning of the chapter, which I found ... while she saw it as an exchange where she offered moments of connection

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not ... mechanical, less human than taste—but of course this often happens in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  past week that showed me true meaning of "IHTFP": At some point around 5 ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  school night at 3:00 am the following day? I planned most of the trip in ... . We arrived at Newport at ~8:30am, so we had hours and hours of spare ... for most of the time. […] At about 85% coverage I took a glance and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT ... time I've dropped a class at MIT because 1) the amount of information ... to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015