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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  brewing through the very air pockets of MIT, and I was able to breathe it in ... ) on one of the roller coasters. As you can see, I’m the poster boy for ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . There's these corners that I can hide in and do my work. It's quiet, but ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  I can't help falling in love with the excitement of obtaining a ... yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry ... break us into the lobby in the middle of the night so we can film it ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the beginning of class. I am not a coffee person. I rarely drink coffee. I do not like the taste of coffee. I oftentimes burn myself when pouring coffee

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  middle of the road to figure things out. I stopped where I was, in the ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... did a pretty good production of As You Like It, but I must confess that ... of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Really! I actually studied Hamlet fairly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  heap somewhere. A final example. In High School, I (and all of my ... in October, and it was important to me for a lot of reasons that I ace ... wanted an A in that class. I would have liked recognition of all the work I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the days to come; thanks for your patience. In related news, I can announce ... . Here is a chart of EA application landmarks over time: In 1982-83, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  ambiance and the kinds of people I saw wandering around (you can recognize ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in ... Dirac Medallist smiles awkwardly in front of an innocuous upside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... Ponchielli's La Gioconda. In his later years, Arrigo served as director of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work ... involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the

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

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... as you can often see in movies but i'm a steady person. I'm not a guy ... course will end in a couple of weeks time?" Yes, that is fine. You can fax

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I ... As you can see, the area in Lobby 7 that was normally cut off due to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... from the bottom. And because I didn't talk about anything MIT-related in ... Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... commitments on Tuesday nights will be able to take advantage of them. I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  in Baker, my first year, I got to know a collection of 8 people ... In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... that I would feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of STEM in comparison

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  familiar with Redux Toolkit, I can now think in the level of "do some action ... 't know, and the possibility of more unknown unknowns, and I can understand ... in the level of words. Bob has more experience. He can listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... . PhD Comics Can't believe I originally forgot this gem! Called to my ... distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008