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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  powerful, I'm liking this! I read on, hoping for an indication as to which ... installed in 10-250, MIT's most popular lecture hall? If not, take a quick ... saw an article entitled "10-250 Upgrades to Be Completed by Fall With

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the ... in this picture).So, now I'll move on to Friday!For you people on the ... screenprinting for so long.Then I played with the scary chairs in Baker, that lean

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  continuously am an absolute expert at clowning myself in large groups. Basically ... participate in a discussion for me. But for STEM classes, there are often very ... ends. Tl;dr, I’m in ESG, because for once, just once, I actually won a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... my dorm. I collapsed on my bed, keeping in mind to rest for a few ... able to finish this…should I ask for an extension? No…no, I just…I just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  = Undergrad Women in Physics **FASAP = Freshman Arts Seminar, an advising ... . ****Katelyn Gao = my former roommate, not an acronym. In the past week, I ... dough for Loaf #3 chillaxed in the fridge for two and a half days in hopes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... ! Grades aren't everything, but this was a really big moment for me. In ... (QS) in marine microbes, where bacteria produce molecules and behave

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  . So why, oh why, did I choose MIT? First of all, I lived in Boston for ... , I fell in love with the city with 135,000 college students and just an ... immediately became an editor. Now I'm in charge of the Fall 2006 issue and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  “DON'T MOVE!” in an urgent tone of voice and abruptly hang up. Then I ... in the first place, and I thanked her for her kind understanding. Five ... . Yesterday, after a piano lab class in which I realized for the first time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  process, but a short one. I had to apply online, book an appointment, go in ... enough. I’ll just work harder. If I ask for help, I'll just be an annoying ... myself. In retrospect, the logic is kinda ironic because asking for help

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that ... will all crowd in the kitchen for waffles and a good time, and I cannot ... exhilarates because it means forward action, and not just in classes, but in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  the ground for an hour and a half. In the afternoon, my post-finals pre ... Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved ... seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... with stickers. Fun fact: 2 years ago, while I was working as an

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  positions that are due in an hour... All in one senior evening. Next week, you might be doing that after an interview in New York. Interviews: you never ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  . This entry is a shameless plug for an event that Keri inspired me to ... back as an upperclassman (a junior!? WHAT!?) is much different than going to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for ... ). In reality, only one college (King's) manages to do it every day, but ... thing of great pride for a college, and they will entice good musicians

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  : To come up with Medieval puzzles and challenges for an upcoming ... decided they wanted to add some glowing gems for an added effect. On the ... word for an intern who works off campus for IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  in emailing the CEO to ask for an internship, but can I have one?" The ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... , during IAP in January, I did an unpaid externship at 5W!TS Productions

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Association Vice-President, or UAVP, of MIT. In March, I ran for president, with ... Andrew Lukmann '07 and Ruth Miller '07. I intended to write an elections ... 'm no longer UAVP. I wrote a column for the Tech, with a lot of emotional

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  directly for his humanities ball, in the meantime using my robot to block his ... friends vouched for me (as in, fought with the judges to let me try again ... credits required for graduation. Being a tech school, the balls representing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  craziness season begins for you poor juniors in high school (subject tests and ... in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... draw in my sketchbook for no particular reason, or listen to music and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015