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• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  thankfully had made a suggestion for where to eat, and we were off. Now ... it. On the way, Hawkins '12 thought it would be a good idea to dare ... made. Due to a slight (actually, major) misunderstanding, we looked

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... . Somewhat to my surprise though, despite having a full-time job, I have continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I've been working on a few ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they ... to some extent, that might be true--there's a barrier to entry to every

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop ... is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a ... through teaching, organizing events, or just listening to a friend on a hard

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... "]Miami.[/annotation] Instead, we came up with a somewhat unorthodox plan: we'd fly to New Orleans, spend a couple of days there, then rent a car and drive from Louisiana to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... pset due in at 2 PM, this chorus tends to take on a special meaning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with ... to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning ... ☺ And that happens to be just a little too far away, haha. Following two ... last week to a small rural area of India called Anaikatti. Since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible ... trying to do something important with a deadline, like apply to college ... listen to your essay being read aloud, either by a computer or a friend, to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... statement, though. The real claim to being “from Hawaii”–to being a true

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure ... to draw some pictures to factor out a few thousand words. ... This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental ... 's okay to mail a CD containing my coursework project in response to the Optional "Show us a device/design" question." It's very important to know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... it to last a second in a department where everyone seems to be premed ... to be a doctor. I've been taking science classes purely out of interest

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... about hacking at MIT." Julie: "I've been looking to write a musical! If ... to be doing a lot of commuting. That's right: Hack, Punt, Tool was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  the Red and Orange Lines to Chinatown Station and then walked a couple ... expensive but totally awesome, I turned to eBay for a classic, all ... . The physics test caused me to miss three fine opportunities to catch a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  to remind you that things would be okay. there's a small niche of ... database and programs a bot to tweet one out every so often. notable accounts ... valero-o'connell. you bought it on a trip to harvard square where you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have ... a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019