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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  Organizations, a 9-credit class in the lovely new MIT Sloan School of Management ... : school got harder. We're in rough terrain - first wave of exams, or in my ... freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a very small sample of the MIT population, mostly just the people I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you'll experience at MIT, seriously. You'll be rushing around, meeting tons of new ... bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  for the Straight Guy." Yes, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) at 10 p.m., Ed will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las Vegas (see photo of Ed "before," with Carson Kressley at right). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  the large, non-tubular envelope at me. It was kind of exciting, and ... DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today ... impression that a lot of smart people (and, by extension, a lot of people at ... always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The mission of the ... list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit ... colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. And because I'm bad at narrating my life, we'll go

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college ... that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... think all or most of us signed up anyway. We like helping.) Actually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  , but MG and I are somehow also at the far right? it's the sheer amount of ... repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you ... . woah, all of us like finding new music, huh Time Traveler (ETVU) — amber

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  that MIT is a dynamic place and that any new member of the community ... It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  something that's made me view it all differently. At the essence of what he ... in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... . UROPs are wildly popular, with 92% of undergrads doing one at some point ... laser-induced mind control at MIT? But probably the most enticing part of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  days of IAP where I felt a little less than human. I would wake up at 2 ... I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... also in a mixture of East and West Campus geography - at the beginning of ... fringe of the academic buildings. I know that when I was first looking at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The ... the creativity and ambitions of its students, faculty, and alumni. New ... have their own class. Suzy Nelson is just at the start of her journey

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of ... Spanish class of the day is at Harvard, SPANSH 81 Table Talk and Food

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the ... I was exposed to a lot of new concepts, programs, ideas and people who ... what this week will entail and what type of issues are at the forefront

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  example, here are some of the contests at East Campus' "Bad Ideas 2011 ... the first floor of the new Maseeh Hall. It's an incredible space, with ... greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011