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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  Over the past few years, toward the end of my full-time undergrad and ... thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green ... sun on my skin; I still see blue skies, light clouds, and networks of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... could have a great experience at any of those schools, just like I could

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured ... . Basically some Swedish guy named Notch got bored at his job as a game dev and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example, building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... seminar. Tomorrow I have class at 9 AM until 4:30 PM, at which point I go

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final exam study days. From my desk at Hayden Library, I watched the snow fall throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business. Sororities at MIT are quite large, with about 80-100 members, so it is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard Summer Admissions Institute since Sunday. It starts at 8AM with breakfast

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  : silence and song. Moments of laying down on my bed, looking at the ... The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... Displays of Science Regardless of what display you’re using to read this blog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10 ... going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an entire month’s worth of pain and exhaustion and fear came bubbling up

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6:28 p.m., you probably experienced a barrage of feelings. These might ... being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS ... at MGH with a chance of appendicitis! Oh dear! Let me know if I can ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... the computer science minor. 8. Having regrets. At the end of the day ... activities. Well, of course I felt at the time that those student jobs were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse ... horrible, awful, no-good, wonderful, amazing place: Sleep at least 8 hours every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  final project at the end of the semester online to show everyone what I ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... teammates sitting at a booth near the windows. When they spot me, the guy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020