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• 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  Robot?). At the end of the conversation, the wonderful representative that I was ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• 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 / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... online reply form at MyMIT. You have three choices: tell us you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  the top of my lungs. UROP I have a really cool UROP at the Scalable Cooperation group at the Media Lab this semester - after a semester of ... write about your classes. Seriously, look at this mess. (Realistically

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• 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 / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... . To be a creative writer at MIT, there’s a certain amount of going ... My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• 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
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  normal to us now like motion graphics were completely new and magical at ... honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere ... city planning movements like New Urbanism. I think this is one of those

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about creativity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019