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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  after learning about it from my friends, I thought it would have been a ... generally interesting and makes a nice change from regular academic classes ... Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the ... The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride ... joined a group of people from New House 3 (a neighboring living group) and ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked ... removed embryos from the maternal chickens and then played Wii sports for a ... . Lobby 10 is a stone's throw away from the Admissions Office, so Kendra and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... high school experience was so far removed from what most people judge to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off ... a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so ... . you're a charcuterie board devotee and have at least one weird niche

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  someone read aloud: My name is Cami. I'm a lil bi filipina girl from LA county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  crystal formed from carbon atoms arranged in a single isometric ... It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  just a list to pick and choose from. 1.  Eat a Lot of Food This is the ... shopping yesterday because it was nice out and I needed a break from studying ... I had a biochem exam today. It did not, uh...go as planned. What was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  this! Even a pandemic can't prevent us from maintaining decades of ... I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  and at home, but this was a close contender from what mom used to make ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  K. ‘19, based on an informal survey. (Note from Maya: "This was a ... East Campus has a reputation. It's known as the mysterious and ... , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  . DC '15 gazes wistfully into the distance from a gentle incline. Will ... first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes because apparently my immune system is taking a little vacation right now. Aside from learning about mass spec and the excretory system and all that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  , wondering if it was a desperate attempt to keep the world from ending. That ... going to be a good night. At ten, Javi '08, Jordan '11, Dan '11, and ... only were we two hours early but the theater was already a quarter full

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  a week (~20 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Lipkowitz ... stories and short descriptive sketches. Readings from European and American stories from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Class discussion of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in ... definition is small), having graduated from a completely unknown university. I ... bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  from MIT; he is now a professor at Berkeley. If his surname sounds ... , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  policy problems in depth. The problems range from economic growth in the ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth. Professor: Peter Temin format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week, one 1 hour

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  sci-fi, check it out from your local library. I just had a Levar Burton ... anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005