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• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or maybe you'll be watching something on television, or Weird Al's White and ... your parents having frank and open discussions of your future and college

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  semesters, and are doing that this semester (more on this in the next blog ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so ... are lots of cool things on campus during IAP that Danny would do, and 2

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  on about “third-degree burns”, I gazed around the room and crafted a ... – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  about MIT, life, the universe, and other super specific things, like grass allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  love University of Oregon Football, and I can cook pretty much anything ... responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities ... 've been cataloging and evaluating these tactics and I've come to a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and useful, and I know Paul '12 and Hamsika '13 are excited for it. RA ... the news on the official and unofficial pages. Debate fans: The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and ... require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT ... mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... My room's dark, it's late Monday night, and the January respite from ... naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... , sometimes Tufts or Boston University). Sometimes, these alums will band together to rent/buy a house as a group. And, as tradition goes, these nerd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  , as a 18 year resident of the state, always forget) and I highly ... the MIT bubble, and I didn't really think about how little I actually ... doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season ... statement, and the sharp crack of ice breaking in the horse trough signals the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  and informal relationships among students, the Institute, and the ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage ... things like applying for funding and filling out reimbursement forms. Last

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or midnight every night. And there were a lot more tests in high school! But

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  time around, summer is over and school is starting (although not for a ... , because I'm moving back into my dorm. And most importantly, friends that I ... means to me right now, and it's kind of weird, because I'm not used to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  policy development and institutions, and reviews normative and empirical ... come up with 179 results, and I've since filtered that list down to just ... select "easy" classes, and I think classes are easier when you are

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  figures who work with and against institutions that order society. You can ... and celebrate responsible disobedience: The Media Lab Disobedience Award ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  being this tired and this hosed and this abandoned by institutional ... I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18 ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment. Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  games when they are growing up, like playing house and things like that ... .'" -Professor Margery Resnick, Professor in Foreign Language and Literature ... , hahaha) we had our final session for our tenure as Burchard Scholars, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010