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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to ... a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be wondering, "what is a Hell Week anyway?" Excellent question. According to ... between me and a plane back to California is a final essay and three final

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period ... , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  but I tried to connect with him a bit since I already knew that I was going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... next three years, I got to know Zach as a passionate violinist who

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  As I walked up the steps to 77 Mass Ave this morning I was ready to ... ; And finally, outside the President's office, a portrait:   With a note: "President Hockfield, We have waged infinite battles against

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day). Here's when you know it's time to go to bed. Roommate Jon: "Did you get ... Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  for the semester ahead, we took a break to look at the stars (which you ... miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the ... important to you in a living environment? Where are you thinking of living ... awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the production we were seeing involved a set weighing 45 tons... They had to build

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... phone, I could have painted a mural, or done things I actually wanted to ... assignments to give myself a little time to reset. By the end I no longer cared

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school ... chose to hang my hat on MTG. Was it scary to audition as a freshman? Of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was ... traffic cone was deemed suitable. A message, addressed to the Anti ... a picture of this process, this is when we started to realize how big

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... lucky we all are to have a home like Tetazoo. Lauren S. '16 and Micky D

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... a poster that said this food truck along with one giving out 'gourmet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor ... professor, Robert A. Weinberg, won one of the largest prizes awarded to cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... their own modifications and designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... encourage him to attend Kenyon. "She was feeding me lines like a ventriloquist ... and asked whether the young man had a chance of being admitted to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006