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• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... working on a Masters in Fine Arts degree full time for the next year; Zig ... Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... disappoints. 7:30pm–8:45pm Official Welcome for Parents. Perhaps one of the ... education - and this will tell you about much of the rest. 2:00pm–4:00pm

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  favorite parts of the year is our retreat in the woods with other East Coast ... , the solo performance I'm most proud of was spinning to "The Rockrose and ... ://youtu.be/zIubvTVsBQo?si=6lNNuGQT7zmHyAzQ Being a part of the fire spinning community has been

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  new MIT frosh go to a bunch of events and check out all the different ... people to —again, literally— pick me up off the ground, I found a lot of ... ^3 offers all kinds of help for pretty much any kind of problem an MIT

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... , these are some of the highlights of some of my favorite places to sit and study on campus over the past couple of years. 1. Sloan   2. MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree ... me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may ... (now five) classes I needed to add for the degree. I still don't want to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  have secured a full-time offer for 2024 in the specific type of role I ... interviews, and . . . Well, you get the point. Sort of wish I had the ... the first time), and I have a better grasp on the actual stakes of a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... , waistlines be damned. Of course she would always foot the bill because she

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest ... stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes ... I ensure that I've made the best out of my four years at MIT? Will I ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was ... Miller, was out of town today, so the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  2024’s,[/annotation] some of the admissions officers were talking about ... , transcripts, and letters of recommendation. In light of COVID-19, the ... were navigating the exhausting world of “virtual events” and found that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the ... of! Going on vaca Adam and I are going to the Bahamas tomorrow and ... 't been to the beach since spring break of sophomore year (when I went to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  awake this early. Of the four people I'm sharing a room with, I'm the ... bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs ... rooms. And there was no one else on the floor, but I'd hear the voices of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  Quantum Mechanics Sequence MIT is one of the few schools that offers three ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment ... by being a tour guide at my alma mater. I loved college and all of the ... of the things you discover as you go through your college exploration

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is ... graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... , the average MIT student is more than conscious of problems that don ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Coast. After an early morning trip to the Manchester, NH airport (that 4 ... young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of Educational Counselors (ECs) too. The Seattle/Tacoma group of ECs obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008