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• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every ... like the hosts of a party trying to get people out at 3am: You don’t have ... blinds and a cup of water handy. My sister informed me that my parents at

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... , instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  be the exact colors of my room in East Campus. At 11 pm we get another ... look at the new blue frit, standing out on top of the old white dots ... first." At the end of all my babble I don't even know what I've said. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  Science), at its heart, is broken down into three separate portions of a ... -fledged major that is one of many offered by the Electrical Engineering and ... offering. I don't have an opinion on some of the classes, since I haven

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  —because at the end of the day, it’s about your lived experience, not just ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most common questions I get at college fairs and webinars: "Does MIT

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  , representing one of their student groups at the Activities Fair, problem sets ... social life at MIT begins. I originally met two of my closest friends ... of the people I originally met at CPW. So seriously, meet as many

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  courses. Last year, at the undergraduate level, 36% of engineering majors and 51% of science majors at MIT were women (as were 51% of humanities ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth

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

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... like this. I've run into a lot of instances at MIT where someone says ... other places sometimes will let these kinds of comments go, but at MIT we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... 've been offered four dresses to try on. Just seeing them in my room fills me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  tickets during IAP, booked Airbnbs at the start of the semester, and ... snorkel at a beach that had coral reefs. only a few of us bought snorkel ... went to grab some of the best tacos I've ever eaten at a taco truck, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  hole of tea.' I think the density doesn't matter, at least topologically ... I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18.701: Algebra I 18.404: Theory of Computation 18.905: Algebraic Topology I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  ! Reason #6: School cafeterias now offer a variety of hay options to ... . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... topic for the rest of this post and the points listed underneath are all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  graciously offered the use of her kitchen to allow Julie to make some dishes ... pancake known as the Latke. Two teams of MIT experts will present their arguments in favor of their respective type of food. Hear the arguments of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my ... , but fortunately, it's one of those tests that you can take at any point ... ; friday, november 17 my alarm goes off at 7:30 but i actually get out of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power ... friends stayed to chat and poke at the fire. Ian offered to buy free boba

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  One of my sophomore advisees asked me about MIT summer opportunities ... the educational and life experiences of students through leadership and service opportunities" and offers IAP and summer fellowships a) Focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... size of our international audience, I thought I might take a few minutes ... just watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, another staple of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008