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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of ... all-clear to proceed. I decided to get out and exchange my ticket for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  free summer for the first time since high school, I knew things had to be ... groundwork for continuing to do it. A tip experienced artists always give is to ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  airline miles, since I get to travel to another country during IAP for this ... Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... long run to government finances in the intermediate run and economic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and ... also planned for us and one of my favorites was our trip to the Boston ... -year learning community in the MIT Morningside Academy for Design where I get to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and ... satisfied with, you can switch it to listener status, salvaging your GPA for ... broadsided with something close to a 30/100. For the second exam, which he

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... to?” This semester, I am taking two philosophy classes, though

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  old textbooks they don't want or need anymore for anyone on the floor to ... to give up on the circuit problem for a little while, even if just to ... website that professors and TAs can use to post materials for their classes

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... ready to help you out. For women, there are spa parties, movie nights, and ... ourselves into a wing, they took us out for dinner, from pizza to Greek food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  grant application to the Dutchess County Arts Council for a series of ... presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor ... has volunteered with the organization for two years. "Sulinya is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  places at the same time, I had to wake up very early to go fly for Draper so that I could then go fly for 16.82 and then go to class. Luckily for ... Mollie has decided that she doesn't want to write any more "this is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  3.091 was once, very accurately, described to me as "chemistry for ... introduction to chemistry for, say, a chemical engineering major, usually take 5 ... painting to be quite curious, so he asked for it to be examined by x

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell ... headed over to the European Career Fair, for students interested in working ... back to the office to read applications for a while until 4:45pm or so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... out my visa wasn't a long enough period for me to buy the phone under my ... , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... to salty and sweet foods that, after not being exposed to it for a ... rice and eating only the fish to save room in our stomachs for more. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  website for WILG, and it occurred to me that this almost certainly wouldn ... principle remains. I’m still young, and there’s so much I want to do for ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020