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• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  't get out of the bathroom within the next five seconds. Through regular ... its use of the word “subtle.” Consider the following: Ethnomusicology ... ponderous effect of reminding the listener that (s)he will eventually die

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to ... the airport[/caption] The two desginated adults of the trip were Admir and Mike, who each taught the concrete and metals portions of the class

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that the class demanded a certain level of mathematical maturity and went ... him. we didn’t have lecture recordings available until the end of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  step is having all of the academics lined up because MIT does not offer ... Hi, everyone! My name is Emiko, and I am one of the new bloggers :) I ... thought I’d give you guys a glimpse into the life of a student-athlete here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities ... : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8 ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track

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

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  drips of the night, chatting away. I remember sitting there and looking at ... that is here now? My friend Emma describes this as the end of the honeymoon phase, a phase often attributed to the early part of a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... time, I came to the alarming realization that my first set of graduate

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  polynomial function of a real variable, and the degree of  is , then  is the ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... trying everything. As it is, the days are made up of meals, formal and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  them and feel like I have numerous holes in my understanding of the ... /NR and thus alleviating the majority of my anxieties each week. I won ... environment like the one you're currently in—you'll (hopefully) have lots of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... : radio astrophysics, a measurement of the 21cm hydrogen line*. 3. Starting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... living groups - they've been mentioned on the blogs before, but as none of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... turning 21 a week before graduation, and she is one of the most competent ... idea that I was closer to MIT kept me going (that, and the idea of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  ’t take into account the full range of aid that we offer, since they are ... income threshold. And for the 50 percent of American families with income ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don ... much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... here and sean goes to harvard. the three of us talked about credit, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... of the upper-level classes/labs are only available in the fall or spring semester"]one of the less flexible majors,[/annotation]which makes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... present all of our really cool research to the big industry sponsors funding

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025