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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  added that there would be someone coming to speak who was so important ... , avoiding all pronouns and listing the "who" as "18th president, MIT." I ... of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I ... calm you down/you think should be added to the playlist? Let me know in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... around here for 8 years, that i only have 5 more semesters of mit and then ... been hard, because of so many reasons — mental health, trying to figure

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  classes because i genuinely enjoy them, or because of the inertia. what's the point? why am i doing all of this?   https://www.youtube ... stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  What sets MIT's East Campus apart from other dorms of the college ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... , and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... , designed fuel-efficient cars of the future, observed subatomic particles, won

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  application should list all of your test dates (including future dates) so we ... Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... , about standardized test requirements or statistics. Below I added some

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  using a non-standard font. This one only ranks low on my list because of ... closer to the bottom of the list before looking at it a second time and ... of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  30 days, which comes with various, non-specific benefits, and lot of street cred. Sometimes I flip through my contact list and wonder, “what kind of avatar defines me as a person?” Who cares? Spring semester was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr ... Time, we will email all students on our wait list their admission ... things go with the FCC. At that point, we will consider our wait list

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  with blogs that don't bother adding a few lines of code to separate ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  through the process of adding and dropping classes. The first meeting with ... one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  of 11:35 AM, 12/18/08 AD, I've officially, definitively, unequivocally ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton, to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a YouTube

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  watching videos! No, not on YouTube, but on MIT Tech TV (http ... of their Tech Video Showcase. Watch the videos and judge for yourself ... — http://techtv.mit.edu/file/31/ Most “MIT”: The Making of Mens et Manus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  lists, and other forms of ravenous scavenging Masquerading as a member ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  following list of things: Meeting and networking with Twitch people in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 months ago, when I was struggling to the end of the jobs season without an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  format, edit it, and post each of our matches to YouTube. For those of you ... In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  in for your interview. Maybe the night before come up with a list of ... I've done a couple of posts about life at MIT, so I figure it's time ... , but that would be a terrible idea for a couple of reasons. First, it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008