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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how ... students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I ... MIT's campus. It only opened its doors to students this winter, so the ... days like this it doesn't look all that bad. Welcome to New Vassar! Tim

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  Ahh Pi day. It's an important day for nerds worldwide, but it ... towel) You see, MIT is a great many wonderful things, and it's the place ... hours here – most of my sleeping is done when I'm on vacation =] ). It is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  like it, but after honing my station over the past couple years, I ... go here to see how I defined the station, what I liked/disliked/bookmarked/etc. For those that don't know about Pandora yet, it's basically free online

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  was oddly invigorating and I don't really know how else to describe it ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet ... interface didn't scale for different phone models, so when I showed it off on

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  So it’s been cold lately. And when I mean cold, I mean like our-room ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  engineering isn't about how good at written tests you are, it's about building ... , probably more than you realize (ooooo, cryptic). Burton-Conner has all of its ... guess it's called a "Quiz," but they just call it that to lure us into a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... class. It's a HASS-D, it's a CI-H, and if you're Course 9, it's required ... at MIT take this class. The textbook is fascinating; it's something I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  skateboard for 6.810 final project. Spent over 10 hours in lab working on it this weekend with my partner.[/caption]   For the long weekend, I took it slow, taking time to rest up, take care of my body and mind, go

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  just as welcoming. I remember how it felt to write my first observing ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s ... office and saw a letter from Shakespeare lying on my desk, I opened it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I ... 'm not intentional about making space for it. So, I don't know exactly how ... Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  Netflix for eight hours and it's completely acceptable because, hey, at ... and beautiful enclave where it's okay to fail at being real adults, a ... the MIT Bubble. when i heard this, i realized how unaware of what

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  lost their minds. If you haven't listened to it yet, please go do that ... admissions season, here is every single track on the album and its applicant ... , "Well, it's made for me" The kid who’s ready to figure out who they are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... article, "never in Boston’s long and storied weather history (since 1872 ... , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  café, or (dare I say it) constantly refreshing the decisions.mit.edu page. I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it ... December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would enjoy it. But yeah, that's it. Think of this as some light diversionary ... you'll get over it but you feel like you never will.[1] So if I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  my high school group did X, it was so amazing, blah blah blah". I think ... , Presidents' Day, Easter, Patriot's Day (it's a New England holiday), and ... probably "got me into graduate school" because it's being published in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot.  Brown puddles of mystery city juice. Perpetually gridlocked traffic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  about it, the more units that arose. Almost all sprouting from cultural ... one more measurement to see where it ended up. Let's try measuring ... , how did no one notice Yugi grew 2 feet every time he played cards?!), to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  people ever tell you how pretty your cities are?!?!) I have about 200 pages ... was the backstory of how Alex decided to go to MIT. Here's some of the ... -D Lottery (it's not that bad) October 14, 2006 - On Hacks November 05

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010