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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  field guide: - The Students at The Land of MIT have this crazy energy. It ... whispering, "We're going to be at the bottom of our math class!" (They're both ... 't know if that means anything. There is a lot in the way of support at MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots.  But first, let

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... well at applying knowledge.  Effective use of knowledge means quickly ... It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... scheduled for August 2023 and began training! I was at a marathon-level of ... "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  November, one spurt of effort at a time. ... My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... exception of the past couple of days. I've been through this seasonal dip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  then same thing — a number of those will pull back to the garage at the ... I know that the probability of every incoming student at MIT having ... that one group of people walking down the Infinite who block up the whole

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... by any means, but if there was list of everything that goes into making a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  another couple of weeks -- if we don't have it at that point, you'll ... requests: At this time, do not send a second copy of something that you ... thousands of documents. By not calling or emailing about this at this time, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  of its clasp and break, at which point I was sad and felt like a failed ... It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  .” Not that almost every week at MIT isn’t one of those weeks (is that one ... received 3398 messages since August. Only about half of them get read at all ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... 'd share with you some pictures of the waterpark I work at. I mean, I know ... Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star ... finished at about 3 in the morning and spent the night with all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  characteristic about MIT is its plethora of makerspaces. There are big basement ... map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that ... 7) motorcycle against a backdrop of midgar at night ... if you like video games at all, then you're probably familiar with e3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  necessary to marvel at its results and review the pages of in-class proofs ... will appear at the back of my consciousness. It will be vivid and ... away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... grasp, I've been following the Opera of the Future project with growing

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  HOLY COW GUYS! CPW IS ALMOST HERE (42 minutes as of right now) You ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? About 25% of my blog posts are partially written while ... days of MITblogs, circa 2006. Long before my time, Sam '07 would prelude each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP, here's an example of a cool project: "Sociable Robot Applications ... help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  -Population Data Set Near-Infrared Albedo and Flux Variation of Saturn's Rings at 2 ... with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... '11?), Ilang (Wellesley '09) In case you're wondering, here are some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005