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• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  to relax at the end of the weekend and learn a little more about films ... A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... stands at the end of the boat, drops this stick down to the river bottom ... be standing up at the end of the boat. My knees were shaking! Between

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  +/- .5 C at 1000 psi today after three solid days of calibration. Now I can ... deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely improving my quality of life over the past 48 hours. 1. The Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God ... ’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... your (Lulu's?) numbers, since at least half of the Physics majors I ... distribution. Then again, the mere existence of a group at MIT dedicated to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  is by yours truly, Advice: "If at the end of the application process ... . ----- My second piece of advice, which I came up with at the info session a ... you may be at another school." MIT Admissions knows which types of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  Engineering! At the beginning of this semester, we were given a problem, a ... straight to the bus for our first game of this week — an away game at Lesley ... angle grinder. The sparks flew directly at my face, and it was kind of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... the next part of my life and I will not forget my time at MIT! I love you all and thank you for being a part of my time at MIT <3  

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  's conclusion at the end of a lengthy economic analysis.)   ...and ... alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  ,[/annotation]and at the end of the twelve weeks I could go home and nobody would be any ... feelings wash over me as I look at a piece of art, or cheer at a soccer game ... up at the end of the day. To summarize, I have fooled myself into

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  class ring that MIT undergraduates receive at the end of their second year ... -Premiere. This year, our Delivery is going to be on May 5th, at the top of the ... classmates can get an idea of what they’ll actually look like. At Ring Delivery

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  much different than the sort of thing you'd find at your local YMCA ... . Arguably the most famous route at Smith Rock (besides the one on the front of ... along at 1:13, and of course there's the glorious rappel at the end, which

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , compelling portrait of what kind of student and person I was at age 18. If I ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions ... teachers know me much better in person, so I was thinking of asking teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  brilliant. Some of these Dreamers are students at MIT. Recently they ... . But that wondrous source of vitality could be cut off at any time, for ... at the mercy of a single USCIS officer. If I had to return to my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... —the company that created one of my favorite arcade games, Castle Crashers

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  , our residential life culture is a rich component of being a student at ... cantos at a time. Inspired by a close friend of mine (who has an ENTIRE SHELF of Isaac Asimov books at home) I went on a science fiction binge. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  claimed off of MIT's reuse mailing list at 2 AM one night. One of the GRT's in Random Hall bought a small nation's GDP-worth of cereal at Star ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... inheriting the position. Except at some point the French house of Foix merged ... whatever I wanted!!! Another fascinating aspect of teaching at the CFP was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019