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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted, but there are between thirty and forty undergraduate students living on ... called the East Campus Alumni Houses, and each building is split into three

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  ; I don't actually have it and I can't find it online, but if memory ... them is "earn 8 PE points" and I should really get on that because I ... published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  've only received one so far. If you're an MIT '09 and you've had an article written about you (or, parents, your son or daughter), send it along and I ... have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn ... my registration, saw that I had six classes listed, and said "I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  works out beautifully. And that no experimental evidence has ever disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors, LEDs, and other semiconductor devices – would not exist without our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean

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

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  network with businessmen, entrepreneurs, and investors. Even the physical ... startup scene and meeting more and more influential people. The center of ... sides. After I gorged on the cheese and crackers (this broke college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  about applying to our institution, we give your counselors and teachers ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings ... atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... Campus dorms) are more diverse and unconventional. Residents in this part

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now ... , Baltimore/Washington, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco Bay areas. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  about colleges and universities. Many of the students I met already knew a ... County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island, meeting and talking with a lot of students and guidance counselors about MIT

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  background from GIRs (General Institute Requirements) and REST courses, and ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers." _______________________________ You may be surprised that MIT has a thriving HASS (Humanities, Arts, and

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

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... is home and nothing will ever change that. It was the new bloggers ... ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... school, and dreaming about MIT since elementary school, and holy crap I ... and started doing a terrible but energetic jig right there.) Hi there

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... general. Relief, freedom, and possibility overwhelms me, feelings that were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... . Laundry is $0.75 per washer and $0.25 per dryer. You can pay for it with ... owns and maintains a small exercise room for residents. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  there. And while in various senses I think I achieved that to some degree ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I ... ." Regardless, it's 9:05am, and I am awake 9 minutes too early. I decide I will

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  do with as you like. Most doors have been painted and painted over who knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006