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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity on 5th East. We were soon joined by Lex '00. One of my favorite things ... after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... of these goals and meticulously drew out a chart listing each habit and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here ... memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... -ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  moved that he brought it to Star Trek. For those of you who don’t know ... , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular concerts.” The Boston Pops was founded in 1885 with the goal of performing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... are tiny; students don't really take advantage of them. This is fine by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

    To continue on my series of Weekend Adventures, this blog ... 90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself. This is what got me going: Taking "advantage" of pass/no-record. "No ... . More than not there's some aspect of selfishness and self-validation to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking ... Playsentations, the final Toy Design hoorah where all of the groups present their

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by ... is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... to me an article that he found while perusing the most recent issue of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006