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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... the most of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece of advice: enjoy it. Naturally, a mental battle began the first week ... WEEK OF CLASSES Monday - Calculate the Scores I Need to Pass So far, I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money ... as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... ."]Dormspam[/annotation] asking students how much they spend monthly to see the cost of MIT outside

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent ... day of the past decade. I helped teach Susan Hockfield how to play Wii

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship ... will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the ... gathered around numerous booths set up along the walls of the library ... tables. At the very front of the venue was the chief of all the booths

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o ... dropped on the week of Drop Date I dropped 2.001/Mechanics and Materials and 6.008 on the week of drop date. 2.001 was honestly the roughest

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , attended the dinner and offered words of introduction. He has been a member ... community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and ... , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  "](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the ... a marsh ahead of the camp site. [carousel image1="119561" image2 ... . It was nice to take a moment out of the productivity-maxing of MIT and

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... requirement. Our professor, David Pesetsky, is pretty awesome. The majority of ... last week of IAP, during which I did Women's Initiative. The goal of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes ... the history of japan guy, and it is an incredible rabbit hole. cj ... me of the last class of 6.031, when it played while my professor stood

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... (and reward) the latter when we read, and that one of my favorite admits ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... begrudgingly agreed to usher his blog entry into the multicolored web portal of ... blog entries from myself will sparsely surface to the light of your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... credit for some of the introductory classes"]ASE.[/annotation] When ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the ... the college campus (hello Boston!). Yet, one of the most rewarding ... that every day. Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... Matsuoda, the VP of Technology at Nest, she admitted that she didn't do

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the ... around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in ... the world. The goal when we started was to get to 25% of the world

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022