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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... lightweight, perfectly reflective material, how big would the sail need to be ... and quirky people you will ever know- yes. For learning how to live a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  high classical style, I had to learn how to improvise on piano and do ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  bioengineering major so it might be interesting to revisit biology and see how much ... what it means to be a fan of something and how fan cultures change and ... a bug I don't quite know how to fix, but I usually just run to Joe or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  're figuring out how to adapt to an online format. We're still working on ... ", and how it's natural for us to tell people things in a way that makes it ... forget how to be that person. "Authentic" and "vulnerable" are words that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  to these kinds of things, so we’ll see how long it lasts):  I ... on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to ... down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started

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

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  -setting even through they're on Pass/No-Record, and I think to myself, "hahahaha ... anymore," which leads to internal sobbing and then I'm jolted back to ... stuff. I haven't decided how I feel about this. Actually, things have

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• 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's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  young undergrads to see how the program considers each application. I ... than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp ... leather tome with yellowed pages and predictions about how each one of us ... weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE ... -up number that represents my vague opinion about how likely you are to be ... Sorry I've been MIA lately- I've been taking 2.670 (Intro to Machine

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  ). We're now taking bets on how long it takes his MIT classmates to crack ... tapping into what he already knew about humans, like how to make them ... Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  return to. I was shocked how quickly MIT, and especially East Campus ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  brave. (Eli hoped to go from “Not knowing how a computer works at all to ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST ... up to get my act together. Showered, dressed, brushed teeth - booked it out the door at 9:50, and made it to Astrophysics at 10:03. Our exam

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013