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• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  groups, and this time of the semester is when they all give their ... shows this semester, and it's so nice to just sit down next to friends and ... each other—there's no expectation to—but you're friends, and so you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know that our prospective students (and their teachers, counselors, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high ... think it was pi beta phi, and standing on top of those low brick walls in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  ) and chilled for four months taking various online courses, studying Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... , and then video calling my adMIT friends until 2 am.    like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... more fun, and there would have been more things to do."]i thought a lot ... ="ideally a city, and seattle is quite nice -- i'm concerned about when it's not

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  . No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... a parser and was like, "Aww crap. This is harder then I thought," so a ... very sad, but I talked about what I wanted it to be and I ended up

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  freshman! It's appropriately called Freshman Arts Program and inappropriately abbreviated FAP. Yep that is the acronym. But us counselors embrace it and make waayyyy too many FAP jokes and puns. And after going through this program a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  teacher evaluation forms and left the classroom. Around the same time, an email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... professor left the room, she turned to Danny and said, "Did you get the email

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Programming I made that cat black and white and blurry (on purpose)! That was me! Mind you, this was the very first problem set. About a month and ... computational problems,” which basically means runtime and common algorithms, like

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  not about professors’ research and academic careers. Instead, they highlight who the professors are outside of MIT. And the videos are truly fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and whirlwind-feeling, but also sometimes very slow and dragging all at the same

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... and my UROP and not super engaged on campus this entire semester, which ... femininity and having more "female" interests (particularly fashion

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  ..” and the hopefully less familiar D - “Minimally acceptable..” F - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  . There are readings with short names, like “Racisms,” and readings with incomprehensible names, like “Intersectionality and the Ethics of Transnational Surrogacy.” There are readings on the history of education methods and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  this semester, I sat down with Benjamin Schreck, MIT senior and creative ... , a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River. Why? It's a fun art project. It's tradition at this point, and getting

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice ... and which way we were forcing the other team to throw, that was enough ... began understanding the game more and more. But I still needed to work on

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  called Two Truths and a Lie, that blogger was me, and today I'm a slightly ... first, I started typing this post a few minutes before midnight and now it ... loving Mom and Dad.   My 18th Birthday/Going Away Party...oh shoot

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  a full itinerary and ended up with something like this: ... and ... not go out and meet them :) 2) The MIT Mobile application will help you navigate across campus and on the Boston side where you might find events

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  and their homonymous dessert counterparts, let’s do a little thought ... town, you happen across a little corner shop that looks (and smells) promising. You push open the door and smile as you hear the familiar jingle of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  specializes in projects that focus on interfaces, interactions, and communication between man and machine. And it looks like the USS Enterprise merged ... science fiction books and then create a final project based off an idea from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014