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• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  Center. A few of you were curious about the facilities, so I thought I ... . There's also a huge indoor track field, but I couldn't get in because I ... rink in the winter, but was no longer there when I took pictures) and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  MIT, I know that many of you are currently in the midst of choosing ... Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I take a gap year?

  We encourage students to take a gap year to explore and grow. Every year we have a number of students apply to MIT after a gap year and more students who request a gap year after being admitted to MIT. Taking a gap
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  I saw it.     Can you see it?     zoom ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  meantime, I'm out enjoying all that Oregon has to offer in the way of ... you can use it. It's actually one thing I wish there was more of at MIT ... 'm doing what I love, and getting in some of the beautiful outdoors while I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  , I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite ... My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be ... you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... joy of the subject. It can feel lonely at MIT in general—at least where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  exploring of campus, I'm not sure my body can handle much more of this. Let me ... . I'm not really laying on my bed, I'm kind of shoved into it, feet ... prefrosh, Chris Mills, and told that he's leaving. I stumble out of bed

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP ... third separate little joy of cleaning! (If you can't relate, I understand ... said I: laid in bed thinking (did some of that, but less); participated

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  !" That's when I realized the power of what you can communicate expressively ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file ... your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... in. Before this summer, I thought a lot of AI-based start-ups were ... love dearly, to learn as much as I can and take pride in my achievements

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I ... , knowing that we can only take fewer than 400 people during Early Action. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . "Kith, I disagree. If you get in, you can handle staying in, for the most ... (of which I've taken advantage several times). We can also get discount ... with everyone else. Anonymous asked: "If I can't make it to CPW, how out-of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  for my CMS.300 paper. In terms of how I found sources, I spent a lot of ... emotional impact of nature, and nature in video games. I found a lot of ... video games because of the class and I loved my time in the class. After

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that ... I look in the mirror I can only see a pity accept. The AOs threw a

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

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  .."]Radiohead,[/annotation] no in between. you're the type of person who tends to isolate yourself ... can't get things done when you work in a group. you're addicted to ... not even a glimmer of light left in your eyes. you like telling yourself

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change ... Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014