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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... notes that are still on the board from the part of lecture I missed. I try ... thinking of the decent proportion of the 200-something 6.005 students I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... calc) with me one time my freshman year. The only thing she got out of it ... of the magnificent shopping opportunities in Boston -- the Pru, Newbury

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And because of the MISTI program, also awesome. Hokay, so I took 550 pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  the NSA and the tour guide I had was really uptight and that kind of ... they should put on the team, and one of the tests was themed Anatomy & ... senior year of high school. Additionally, the high school I went to had

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  affected by one of the hurricanes or by the earthquake in south Asia, I wish ... list of activities but an explanation to the activities listed on the ... leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... of reading and a lot of internet. I read the MIT website, I read the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal ... . My friend (and one of my favorite people) Caroline M. '18 wrote the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired ... -seated anxiety and a general feeling of not knowing what to do. All the buzzwords ... overcame some of my fears. I'd been meaning to start the UROP search earlier

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  ’t think of a good way to write this blog about all the stuff that comes to ... -edged sword. One side of this sword is that the large scope of courses you can ... constraints. The flexibility of course choice regarding your major, minor, or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about the insane story of how Tetris was made, and the Creator Alexey Pajitnov

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  my last semester blogpost that this class was the bane of my existence ... test with Helena, one of the Spanish department faculty, and she said I ... 'm really grateful for this change of pace compared to the very fast and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in a place with such a plethora of opportunities. In the fall of my ... focused environmental group run out of the [annotation note ... offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  a general statement that sort of goes under the idea that you are now ... the middle of the day, instead of getting up at 6:45 like in high school ... are wrong. One of the things about college is if you do not limit

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free ... a “super long break” with the incorporation of IAP, but everyone who

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the ... design is based on the iconic cable cars of San Francisco, which I grew up

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . Xian: I realized that, after talking to the rest of my team. There ... , the thought of doing this for years and years after I graduate, you know ... : One of the… spiritual problems I've been thinking about, these past few

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of ... majorly Part Of The Problem. Going to college 5,000 miles away from home

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me ... organizations under the values of sisterhood, scholarship, service, leadership

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  day meaning the first three days of web.lab, after which mit announces ... response time feel a lot of anxiety the night before your first lecture ... the students complains that they can’t make any of the regular office

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022