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• 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 / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• 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 / 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 / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no ... the semester has dissipated, and not even the good weather can replenish it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and presentations, dance rehearsals and shows and workshops, and concerns both personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  : Orientation The overlapping begins. Week 3 onwards: School and beyond ... finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... Robotics, Community Service, and music, and I definitely didn't want to stop

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  , bicycles, skateboards, scooters, and walking. My favorite method, and perhaps ... racks around campus near classes and dorms. There is even an auction near ... ) and commuter rail trains (costs vary depending on distance). The map for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  , which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and ... have classes in the morning and afternoons, often with breaks over 2 ... with all my stuff and were staying at the Hotel at MIT, which is oddly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... experience, the best provider you can get at MIT, and if you look at specials ... commercial is so good that I could probably call up Verizon right now and make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  theory and state machines. Lots of fun math-y stuff. Even though I have no ... , counting down seconds until the next class, and over and over again. I ... , and erase it all immediately after. Then I got here. I’ve quickly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  my camera could capture more than just colors, lights, and shadows. The 'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a ... 've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• 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 / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... [annotation note="hi '28s! welcome to campus <3"]new class year[/annotation], and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  and Carry On 👑   [caption id="attachment_39722" align ... classes + training/practice (grey), psets + revision/studying (blue), and ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a ... computer science world. That being said, I've found myself indulging and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025