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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  ’t really form like a normal friend group it’s really interesting to see how ... and the will to commit to them; how welcoming and supportive everyone is ... students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  . Lucky that I couldn't see anything - because if I had been able to see how ... things I have no control over I'd miss out on the chance to think about how ... Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  -eyed twenty-three year old MIT Admissions officer used to be; how did that ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  to as simply 'Technology.' "]Technology[/annotation] to flourish ... here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga. What is there to study here that isn't Technology? It turns out, due to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of Afghanistan?" "What would allow the Roman Empire to last until today?" Table

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  got creative.   2. THIS. 3. Casino Rueda taught us how to ... Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to ... student center. This is home to a post office, dry cleaners, the ID card

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... 'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic ... projects to try. There are names of books and movies and songs to read

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a ... lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... they lack clever names it's usually pretty easy to recognize patterns (or

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  parts like this: (I call this one, What The Two Hour Drive To The ... ?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... here, because you'll realize just how true it is. Once you transform into an MIT student, you are held to a standard that other people just aren

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... the morning. If you haven't been to college yet, that might seem like a quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... , I'm in really good shape to enjoy CPW . . . well . . . I thought I was ... 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

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  you can figure out how to do it without making them mad. Usually. 21M ... !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every ... for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  don't go to MIT assume that MIT kids don't know how to have good parties ... feeds on our suffering. Hey, it's MIT, you need something to feed on your ... there's not enough suffering for him to feed on. Once term starts, he

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to do to numbers. You could not imagine my joy when earlier this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  count is the measure, not space. :-) "I know how MIT likes to see ... your grades appear on your report card is how we'd like to see them. So ... answers to more questions... ------------------------------------- Andrew

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  hate how the living groups work here because I have to live with the same ... behind the inertia matrix and how to use in summation form to simplify ... . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... "intro" material -- trebuchets, computers, etc. What's next? Where to look

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006