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• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... , because sometimes I want to sleep for only, say, 7 minutes before my clothes ... paying for it. They were closing so I didn't want to trouble them to make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you ... to find some residential trees. For whatever reason, they were mostly

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  . This got me thinking: what would a success profile for an MIT student look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super ... as you look for the opportunities. I didn’t know where to look last ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  for those who just tuned in) kid, I have to take this *one certain class ... You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT.” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to try out for their annual competition, Mic-Check. If a student had a poem

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  lead to greatness in any field. But for me, and for any performing artist ... [by Danbee Kim '09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  schedules to tell you what my scheduling looks like for the upcoming semester ... space for electives, and deciding which exactly to take is hard! (yes ... classes). This makes for my most productive day ever since coming to MIT (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha ... with my friends. i'm really excited for the chance to hang out with ... *spiritual cleanse.* shoutout to my difficult and tumultuous semester for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a ... in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two ... cats, camping out in the kitchen warmth. everyone raiding the fridges for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  if you’re looking for a detailed curriculum, go to http ... everything you need to know for your more advanced EECS classes - Differential ... to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  . Fortunately for society, I was able to ignore my toe pain and battle the alien ... 's not like I was planning to do anything except sit inside and study for ... Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and

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

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for ... responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at ... Is this what it's like to be an upperclassman and only take classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  to see Fun Home (we didn't group it with #7 for the sake of making the ... again, but we plan to continue using it for memory storage. Where else ... the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  if you've seen any [annotation note = "Interactive Introduction to the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... Trader Joe's for the first time in my life, and grew to love their chicken ... . I was lucky to be surrounded by kind and passionate people who

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025