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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless ... , it came to an abrupt end, and I’ve been left staring dejected at my ... and try a new, adventurous wander-around-Boston-while-studying method. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... /No Record basis, and she is allowed to slip. But the lengthy vacation will

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  , and I figured I might as well try too. Since I knew I'd love to work in ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough ... have ICE, and we’ve been hearing about it since we joined the department

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  . space. Just kidding, I was procrastinating and liked Lifehouse enough ... Shell And then there was You and Me.  It doesn't even really matter ... this past week, classes went over fine and we're on to the next one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... awesome) and the Rice-Baylor med program (which would prevent me from taking ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  flame wars and being used correctly, it's also a great way to let somebody ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... . As a Nextie, I had a choice between traditional and seminar advising ... , discuss classes, etc. Seminar advising is all this, and more! You meet with

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  ? How about the letter from Ms. Chu? And my transcript? Weren't they all sent before the deadline? And am I in trouble? Let's take the last ... up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... Building. Intrigued, I wandered over and began to notice a few strange shapes ... MIT. In my humble opinion, and the opinion of millions of fans, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  and care with the application process. You also know that this process is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind ... answer this most deep and profound question? It's all about the Guidance

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  train station. It lets me take the trains and buses around the city where ... around for my French friends to give me rides, and I go to Köln as much as ... travel to Bonn, so I went down there with my roommate Kunal and every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  planning and public transportation. Ling '07, Bao '07 and I visited two such cities this weekend--Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Each city, although smaller than Boston, is serviced by a vast network of streetcars and subways

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and Rodin through the last creative outbursts of Giacometti and Picasso, the ... impressionism and symbolism to mid-century modernism." The twenty or so pieces by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  "statements" that exist out there about MIT students and how they pull all ... a challenging intellectual environment, but it's not impossible and ... outside of class include homework hours, hours reading, and hours studying

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... is an issue that I am passionate about, and I really appreciate the ... that would likely never happen, but at the time, it seemed so real, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push ... a picture so i went to wikipedia and i saw this picture and thought it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... workload is super intense, and my brain can only take so much abuse before ... and rewarding, but doing them takes forever and routinely costs me sleep

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016