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• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends ... tapped out for this CPW, leaving it to a '25 and '26 who felt similarly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  -athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... can talk to for help.” Squash student-athlete: “Being a student athlete

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about ... , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  we can still learn a lot from the interview. And you should be ready to ... ). With the help of Kim, the EC Director, we sent it out to a diverse group ... act in a false way during their interview.  Additionally, to appear in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS ... mindset. But as I've been home in quarantine, I've had a lot of time to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  thought about it like that before.  New Year’s Day is such a mellow end to ... has an overall happy, soft, purple-pink (but in a good way) feel to it ... justice to a happy piece so I really appreciate this album for discovering

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... when written well (i.e. when written by actual employees and not HR), a

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

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student ... support will allow a lot more of the stores to stay open. Harvard

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... 'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5 ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... both asked a version of: When/why/how did you switch to course 9? How is ... intelligence.. etc. I switched from course 5 (Chemistry) to course 9 by getting a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... team to learn “Wargaming,” which is like a more complex game of Risk but ... scholarship and just want to give the program a try, you can do so with no

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... Duolingo thing. He challenged me to a game of chess. Aidan Chambers, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it feels like to go to MIT. The blogs are not supposed to be a soapbox from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build ... use a commercially available toy to make a flying version of the speeder

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... , but I'd still like to paraphrase a particularly excellent quote from Voo ... Maryland where Caroline lives, Jonathan Safran Foer came down to do a signing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  privacy - sites like Facebook are designed to be a community, a playground, etc for students - not designed to be a spying tool for Big Brother. To ... when students get to know us a bit and understand that their applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  have to cure cancer and save a child from a burning orphanage?"). Anyway, the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to ... dream of becoming a rocket scientist. "That is my dream -- to become a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... for me when it comes to watching a game is listening to the pundits ... ’s what I want them to do. But I’m home and after a month and a half, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans ... may not have much 'deeper meaning', it is still a way to express your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018