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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  later, I presented myself to my mother in shame, fully expecting to be ... kept on the highest shelf in the fridge. As I licked my spoon clean, I ... under control, she opened her mouth. I braced myself. In Tamil, she said

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  today. BEATRICE: (laughs) I’ve been drowning in sooo many math psets that I don’t think I can handle anything Pi Day-related. We’re all headed ... will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  wedding, and the advising, and the teaching (I really did) - but in my ... stuff, so I schedule it in. Essentially: there are no empty calendar days ... : white. I could wake up in the morning and think: "what do I feel like doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  2.004 and focus on 2.006 so that I can get an A/B instead of what is ... means 6PM to Midnight rehearsals everyday. In addition, I also have a ... year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  .” Success! Although you can’t really tell it’s in a California forest. I ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I definitely saved time for fun. Case in point: daycations. I consider myself an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with ... validated all the work I put in trying to work through the nasty Klein

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  monologues that you can tell yourself the next time every bone and neuron in ... just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... exam, and doing so well that I’d be confident enough with my standing in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... really cool stories behind them? Neither did I! In the Wiesner Building are ... that I’m going crazy to think that of all things, benches can be

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  brain was really in Cambridge, even then. I don't regret my decisions at ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... reasons. Reason #1 (a.k.a. the 'good' one): I was a debater in high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... of (mostly) ugly clothing. I had a general color scheme in mind, and we ... shoot in the basement of East Campus. I was inspired by the different

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys! ... Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... several thousand prospective students in our Info Sessions. Still, the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  second solo; in the case of my 21m.301 project i wanted as high-quality of ... successful in either instance as i’m still inexperienced in writing music, but ... bias, but what can you really do about it"].[/annotation] then i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while ... inside. But until then, I’ll try not to look anything directly in its eyes.... ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  . What next? I may return to France in IAP or next year as part of ... can use the technical portions of my internship in my UROP. In the long ... In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of ... that you can always send in any materials you wish regardless of if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very ... Well, here we are. I’m taking a brief stop in the Great Hall of Union

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  embarrassment. "Oh, yeah, there's this gay rugby club in Boston that Ruth and I ... to Niagara Falls this weekend." Yeah, so I wouldn't say that in public, but I'll gladly post it here in public. Because on this blog, I have no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005