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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  exposed to a whole different kind of culture. Chinese has helped me find a ... the world, and also because it connects the speaker to a rich history ... to sound more authentic was definitely a big factor. How much Chinese

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to MIT 3 years ago, I made a choice. And then I kept making choices ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange ... . And I chose to go to a city nearby and taste that heavenly sweet potato

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  are likely to cause a complaint, before any such complaint is received ... definition of copyright infringement to include hosting a single link to a site ... single link that goes to a site that someone accuses of copyright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  you want to skip. Of course, there are exceptions, but I often find it a ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... to a problem like the one from class, but with different numbers. After

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  since I left! I miss this place a lot though. I used to write here, but ... miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at ... get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  that in a weird way, I am being forced to reinvent my personality–to find ... . Still, like any piece of art, I find it impossible not to pull out my own ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so ... living there last spring. Rui and I have a tradition where I go up to her ... similar. At one point, I saw both of them listening to it. It's a good

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... want to make that my minor, with a major in management, but I'm going to ... that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... yourself as a match for each place. Teachers often find these conversations

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  applies to watching a terrible movie for my film class. tell my friends ... ask if they want to take a walk or go to beantown. take pictures of ... schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... realized I didn't have to reminisce just yet, and pranced off to a machine shop in the A.M. after finding out about Justin.TV's livestreaming app

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to make the world a better place." That's still a big part of her mission - to get kids ... world. To paraphrase what I took away from her speech: once we become a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  general I taught PUF a “sit” command, but PUF is smart enough to ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... on this particular day, I find PUF curled up on it. With a purple dildo

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it was ... to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s fault ... the soap-opera-ness of it all. Those moments have a tendency to stick

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  , looking around trying to find any sign of that Chick Fil A. I remember ... 's food opportunities. There are some great places I've come to find ... Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... possible. After attempting to wipe it up a bit, I quickly deposited it at the ... wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in ... ...I think that's going to be a homemade moat/river. And here we get a more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  to Physics majors, it's not a strict major requirement unless you’re an ... devoting to this class on a weekly basis. The majority of MIT classes are 12 ... pick lab partners A pendulum experiment to measure the gravitational

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022