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• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019 ... received a prestigious graduate fellowship, he said he felt it, too. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... , you catch a glimpse of a glimmering caramel orb. Its golden glow beckons ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... helping coordinate the opening show for our Campus Preview Weekend - a super

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  's standards. As you can see, Maseeh is a convenient stroll away from the ... 7:48 AM The view from my window If you crane your neck, you can see ... neck, you can see a silver SUV trundling down Mass Ave. My room has one

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  author cites the negation, converse, or generalization of a theorem from ... ]. • Proof by importance: A large body of useful consequences all follow from ... reference: In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from The­orem 3 in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  frequently get these personal messages from parents and alums who felt a strong ... moved into a house off campus with some older friends from my dorm who ... made online as a prefrosh even before CPW, thanks to the new admissions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  seven. (Kellas '10 from England, who lives a floor above me, says this ... on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  . The trick lies in a view of the bigger picture. An education from the ... from your contemporaries, just as the Brass Rat sets you apart in a crowd ... room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... life doing stem, but it’s not so different from the realization i had a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about ... in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  broke out a kids chess CD from a decade ago just for kicks, and i ... these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new ... we were a team in the first place. This year, she graduates from MIT ... specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  with one of her friends who is a grad student from Japan. i really missed ... don’t have many close friends from high school. in a state of loneliness ... , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown ... sister, who is not really a baby. If you want to come away from this with a ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  We're in a hotel room and we're watching Men In Black (preceded by ... competition. Our plane, having been shipped last week in a big wooden crate ... sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  athletes. Most teams practice from 5-7pm, the “activities period”, a time ... -stress (and you get a great view of Boston from the river). Photo Credit: Tony ... alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  , separating it from Boston). We got there early enough to have a great view of ... second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high ... . Specifically, a class on medieval prayer books. Why? Well, for one thing, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  from Sam, whose mind is a creative vesicle of survey questions just ... I am RIDICULOUSLY hosed this week (three exams, a problem set, a lab report, a t-shirt design, a poster design, a UROP proposal, an EMS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non-Athena computer -- Sadly, I must admit that I never learned how to print from my PC ... takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007