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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  and universal experience for all MIT students. Recommendations for ... fun fact started feeling disingenuous as I strayed further and further ... undergrad degree with the rest of my class in Spring 2026 then with my MEng in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  scoffed and said that psychology was a fake science and didn't deserve any ... would somehow tie back to this quote, as we learned more and more about humans and their time on this earth (it was AP Human Geography after all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  had to take 15 and a half classes in one semester just to get one degree ... to get a UROP and do research as an undergraduate. Margaret Mac ... --sneaking into labs well after their closing times, RB used NMR, UV, and IR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  graduate, and so, in two years, I should have a degree in mathematics from ... really bothers you, go download the game, play it through, and this blog ... also clearly note where spoilers begin and where they end.) 1. Voices In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and file. Before that, I've been catching up on email and phone calls. This ... staff to get together and catch up. And before that, I was sleeping off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT ... student residences and clubs held Pi Day events as well. For a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  degree in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences with a concentration ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... and 1984, when Amherst Alley ("dorm row") was moved farther from Baker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how ... premonition I swear"]a future in these big lecture halls felt odd and foreign

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... year where I reflect about my life, and I think I need that :P Sidequest

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... would be too distracting, and any quieter spaces would only serve to ... the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... undergrads out there, I hope these experiences show you how the Institute ... " ("Mind and Hand"). For all you aspiring engineering leaders in the classes

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that ... students all over the world to participate in internships, and they try and ... Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  transformed and defined my undergraduate career at the Institute and I already ... I met Will and Kristina in very different parts of campus. I was ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  school and college, but if you already have a bachelor's degree somewhere ... ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  from all across the university, and getting to fully immerse myself in ... , all my friends started posting, and it was honestly so nice to see all ... westward, some for grad school and some for work. Andrea M. ‘18 and I got an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i have fridays off this semester here's what i did with my first one

  

  your schedule for the semester and noticing that, for the first time, you have absolutely zero reason to be on campus on Fridays. And so when ... window and decide to sleep for another hour. And when that hour is up, you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 6, 2026