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• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  expectations from how it was advertised, which was frustrating, because it felt ... this doesn't quite capture how SHINY and NICE it is now... i'm also going ... wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  will ever feel as far as that walk [annotation note="Looking it up now ... Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 ... that class starts 5 minutes later and ends 5 minutes earlier than its

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

   again as counselors for a week-long, arts-focused, pre-orientation program for incoming freshman! It's appropriately called Freshman Arts Program and inappropriately abbreviated FAP. Yep that is the acronym. But us counselors embrace it and make

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  metal coil, that can be pressed or pulled but returns to its former shape ... !) yesterday that "spring is a tease. It's never as warm as it looks and ... the season comes into its own, we will be hit suddenly, full force, by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  that I could put it in the washing machine. When she tried to push the ... more (it's hard to keep track of what everyone is doing.) We spend most ... building) won by a long shot. So, yes - we slept at work. A janitor judged us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... though it’ll still be less leisurely than last term, when I didn’t have ... Wednesday" (as it was), it should not be due at 1:00am. Indeed, I hadn

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... "sections" named after long-deceased Institute alumni (Wood, Hayden, Munroe ... built or planned, and it's about eighty years old. It's been renovated a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  you who have never heard of Goldman Sachs, it is one of the world largest and oldest investment banking companies. It employs 14,000 people ... .) He immediately stated that it was a good program and that he saw it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... it past first semester of freshmen year without being comfortable with

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... required to by MIT"]flu shot[/annotation] and felt so...distant? maybe it was ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm ... Hall Plaza, but I made it for the main rally. There were some amazing ... throughout. It certainly felt strange going to the Career Fair after

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," as it was known then, was established in the Back Bay in 1865, but quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  really excited about snow. The ones who keep yapping on about how pretty the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can ... ? Anyways!  It's the greatest month of the year at MIT: IAP, aka Independent

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  close over my head—how ironic for it to happen after a few days of ... on math and science because it was one of those all-girls schools. Yes ... (GEL) Program and got me really excited about it. In May, I visited the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  , including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One thing you should know about CPW is that it's absolutely massive. We have ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2 ... ) this fall. It's basically a crash-course series of classes on education

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go ... boxer shorts. And then he recognizes you. How's that for teacher ... next two days, so I'm hoping that I delay its onset until Thursday by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  I spent the last few days thinking about how I felt about the murder ... to find who had killed this man, and how they were going to be punished ... MAKE ANOTHER HASHTAG AND TALK ABOUT CHANGE AND HOW WE WILL GET BETTER IF

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  mindset by punishing or rewarding us based on our work and how good it is ... work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for ... seductive structures of society. So it seems that many a man, living a life in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I ... Adelaide!) A caution cape is also exactly what it sounds like: At the party ... , bubble wrap, trash bags, saranwrap and a suitcase. It's like Jessie said

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005