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• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  story Take the time to learn how to solve a Rubik's Cube Take part in ... pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to ... challenge myself with:   Visit 15 new places to eat in the Cambridge

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... encourages people to interact with others' snowflakes, which I find neat. There ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  bright aura to the dorm as a whole. Plus, the windows are large and let in ... than one or two people in there cooking at a time, it can also start to ... , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  to finding MIT people =) "It might be noteworthy that 10 people in our ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of ... -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  and couldn’t wait to hear his familiar voice bellow from a few feet in ... scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... ), was scheduled to give a talk titled "Health System Transformation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  ) I slide into the hall to find Lamine Touré leading a West African drum ... just as a winter storm began to blanket Cambridge in snow. After we ... , music will continue to be a fundamental part of MIT in the chapters that

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... “Kendall Cube,” a popular area for MIT students to find summer internships ... originally stored in MIT’s Z Center but was relocated to a subterranean space

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same functionality as this fancy to-do list, but does a pen and paper have a dark theme ... 's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping ... thing in the world you want right now is an acceptance to MIT. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  to discover yesterday afternoon. You see, my laptop has a removable ... thought that maybe scotch tape would be a better adhesive in this situation ... scotch tape and then used it to secure the drive in place. So far it's been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... was just so happy to be 'home.' On a side note: Eventually this resolves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  --Typhoon, a "sea coaster" that uses conveyor belts to pull your raft uphill in a ... otherwise contribute to ** THE 24-HOUR SHOW ** a play in a day, produced by ... not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  /funny/interesting/amusing/cool/awesome. Here are a few ideas to stir the imagination: What are ... No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice. As a ... be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to ... 'd just touch on it a little bit. I love going to parties! I love going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a different dorm – and still go to the lounge and fit in. 9 ... the only air-conditioned room in Simmons – a great place to be at the ... a funky-looking dorm is that I can always find my way back to it by

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  , what it means to be an MIT student, and how to find support and push through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... more chances to experience a dorm's culture and style before choosing a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  your major's requirements. However, if you want to major in engineering ... test can give you credit) -A biology laboratory (there are couple to ... have a more biological approach while 3.091 is more applicable to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  listening to someone read a slideshow in the background. It turns cramming ourselves in a room and doing puzzles, to staring at a spreadsheet talking to ... ? Why does it feel hollow? We'd be quick to blame the fact that we're in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer ... of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a ... RA who were initially deferred in EA. That's a small number, but to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014