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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  stepped out of Logan International Airport Saturday night was, "whoa, air ... shock, even for someone from New Jersey, which is pretty humid as well. It ... Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All ... . And if you are like me, this makes you sad, because you were one of ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  at every new cut was a real "whoaaaaa what?" moment :) But though ... summer gig. A really cool summer gig. That was all. At the end of the ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... gay couples are still at their table, now judging the property value of ... , because of a trademark dispute after reforming, they had to find a new name

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  . Finally, the window locked. I waved silently at Lucas and our two new ... At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared ... body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... of my extremely poor navigational abilities, will be replaced with new

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  for new buildings, letters from faculty, pictures of students and ... this lovely man all the way at the back, which of course made me very ... liking a lot so far) and new stuff, too (I spotted copies of Holly Black

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  , and go to study breaks on my new floor. I'll enjoy the company of all ... claimed to be any good at this updating thing, okay? (But for real, I have ... a handful of old acquaintances, one of my problem solving partners

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... odds of being seated at that dinner next to that Salomon Brothers lady ... by a professor of art history at Princeton? Of having been let into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  of 2018 "disorientation" event at the aquarium, which is a senior class ... of new music and old. there were several points when i couldn't stop ... two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  A summer in Cambridge did wonders for my knowledge of the area. While I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my ... End, there's a park with a bunch of cute swings that's lovely at night

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  through mazes so we can later examine what goes on at the level of neural ... of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at ... . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... /protocols, or develop new systems altogether. Even looking at last year's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  , Remember telling pick-up lines at the FLP talent show? I was scared of making ... light at the end of my tunnel is not visible yet, where you follow life ... In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... dinner at the Mall of America and celebrated a successful close to the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play ... Hop with people you know from all branches of MIT. Jose is course 6. And they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  feel like I really got a deep look into a new field of work and thought ... about a career: the size of the company (if I work at a company), the team ... originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  applications for most of the rest of the day, listening to my new music. Tomorrow ... at least 4 full days each week (including weekends), in addition to the ... say, yes, we start with the applications that are complete. As each new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  , the start of school: countless syllabi, new Goodnotes folders, and fresh ... ; part of it stemmed from trying to find the communities at MIT that I fit ... varying levels of social stamina, but at least for me, I need those bits of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023