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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's a picture of Harvard's Widener Library to serve as a transition ... seven floors. It's home to a GIS lab, as well as the resources of courses ... form-filling out process takes a while, unless you go to Rotch. Hence, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... environments. To be clear, this isn't a specific pairing or set of narratives we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... Korea, I sat next to a guy named Tim who was enlisted in the Air Force ... boyfriend, Carl, took me around Seoul to visit Gyeongbokgund, Insadong and a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... structures and secrets, belonged to me, rather than simply being a place where

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  suddenly felt very old. To add to this, I have to declare a major by April ... , in some cases!) to work, a task made difficult by non ... to look at a design and be like, “I made that. And it will change

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... , because despite 26-100 being a gigantic lecture hall, nobody thought to make ... took a big step back to 1923 (when Hubble discovered that there are in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... before. I'm ashamed to admit that I spent a little while sulking, before ... , who is from Nepal. A shout-out to Pramod '14, who has now spent hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... shooting: But of course, being a hipster in denial, if there's two ways to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... (many) graduation requirements is to get a “concentration” in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the ... , which are similar to floats, contain seltzer, milk, syrup, and a scoop

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  , past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better ... , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I ... away, past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my ... normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which ... know that we were actually living a countdown to a time when our lives

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the ... 's definitely not what I expected to produce, but at least I have a basic idea of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  a hotel, add two practices a day, access to a hot tub and a television ... dolphins. After a tumultuous journey home due to bad weather in Philadelphia ... I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  are as a person and a student. Applicants are expected to contact their ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application, essays, standardized tests and teacher recommendation letters (not to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  health day" to see what I mean). It's nice to have a long weekend to ... their acceptance if we were to get a 3.0?" apricotcordial wrote, "um, would MIT revoke my admission if my gpa fell to a 3.9 (if it was a 4

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue ... , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... 'm taking 6.S189: Introduction to Python and a LineStorm Animation class. So

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  LIVE BLOG: see MIT through my eyes On a very normal, inconsequential day

  

  to do a "day in my life" blog for a while, but kept waiting for the perfect day. A day when I had a blogger meeting or plans to go out for ice ... Fridays) Side note: I originally wanted to make this like a game of

  • by Hala K. '29
  • March 9, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350 a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019