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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... boring ones? Today's topic is housing, because it's raining out and housing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and ... -buying. RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it, and stages ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who ... ++, Arduino electronics & programming, and survey design + human

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  this Thursday afternoon as a break, and so the room degree ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  get an engineering degree from MIT and then...you know, not use it ... wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... librarian. I just thought all the electronic scanners and stuff they used all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my ... independence, bringing me closer to both myself and my parents. I was recently

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  it pulled an all-nighter the night before, and considers 7 hours peachy keen and 6 hours adequate, but as soon as term's done and I leave town, it considers itself deprived on less than 8.5 hours per night, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  universities have their own famous and accomplished faculty members. But from ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ago. People born on 18 August 2008 are walking and talking all over the ... possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Materials books. The themes, concepts, and narratives from the books have ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event that requires consultation, commiseration, and collaboration. Barbeques ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  fiction (and reality?) Evolution of popular beard styles Universals of human ... Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  more detail, developing characters and the setting and the various twists and intricacies of a satisfying plot. Unfortunately, not all of these ... writing takes time and time is something which you give to MIT for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  time for women to devote to other enterprises), and the universal nut ... It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam ... -credit classes that do have tests and homework, but they’re definitely the minority

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  the MIT Sukkah) and enjoying Pizza (in the Hut). Come by and join us, we ... something that I had to send back to MIT, and it asked for my religious affiliation and I left it blank, because that's pretty much accurate. Boy, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not the best). Things have been looking up since then, and being meticulously organised (both my dorm room and my room back home would probably

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  boarding another. Hour 83 Approximately 3500 miles, 12 states, and four ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019