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• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... decided to work on an [annotation note="In a world where I passed 6.00, I am

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a ... "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more ... (like all MIT freshmen are) to be super hardk0re. In fact, he's SO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  the first problem set than I ever expected to learn in two weeks. This ... jobs: in addition to my UROP and blogging I am now also a professional ... on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in ... treadmill looks like.) This is the Porter Room. Back in the day it used to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... so good that it squirted me in the eye," he says. He loves talking to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions technology. Designed ... admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... makers of Guitar Hero, to Terrafugia, who are in the process of making ... I applied to be a student partner at several VC firms in the area

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco in December 2019. I was there to ... museums that weekend, it was great. (not that there's much else to do in DC

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  life felt back then.   I like to think about it in terms of ... blossoming grief in my chest had worn off, [/annotation]I began to focus on the ... . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in ... time in which to draw on unexpired inspiration). There are incredible ... emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... this book. Roth can really write, and I want to get acquainted with some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... . In the eighth grade, while we were all fracturing off to different high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  majoring in Course 4: Architecture at MIT (as you know, I eventually received my degree in Management Science). Famous architects like Holl get to ... completely new cities in China. Holl has begun talking about Simmons Hall

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before ... : So Mom was volunteering and showing people to the second floor in the ... to a motor and it reacts to a light sensor. So cute in fact, that I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... they are of value to us in the process. A number of students called me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... exams in order to get a grade I could achieve with a nontrivial amount of ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome ... Office. I also love getting discounts as an MIT affiliate at the Boston ... being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005