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• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made ... brand. I have no idea why this is on my MIT survival guide list. But yeah ... handicap. This is the first thing to get over when you come to MIT. A lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  Library. It's one of MIT's several libraries and it is one of the more ... who is planning on visiting MIT, I have gone ahead and taken a picture ... Library is even one of the stops on the official MIT Napping Tour of Campus

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... 'd like to take. That being said, I did originally apply to MIT as a ... . This class is notoriously difficult and I'm pretty stressed about doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  juggle, but she’s unfazed. MIT is a really hard place, she admits, a place ... , is Beantown Taqueria, a cozy Mexican Restaurant with delightfully spicy ... --which is indeed, as heavenly as it sounds. It was introduced to Beantown by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , I should blog! 7:40 PM: Erons '12 walks into my room. Erons is not wearing shoes. 7:41 PM: Erons is asking me something about electric potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  of art as "The Thong Song" is, I personally think that it was simply ... occurrence, because I happen to live next to the president of the MIT Sport ... neighbor Alicia (Course 7 '06) is the president of the club and is only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... Center is no more. This past weekend, Subway closed abruptly due to issues ... . This happened with little warning and we are sorry that Subway is no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  Wednesday. It is driving me crazy. I started talking to my squishible monster ... being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1 ... Services is super great about sending emails to professors and letting them

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  pies, piedentified (joke by Irina’s boyfriend Alex). The top row is ... bottom row is banana cream (vanilla pudding and bananas), fruit salad ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  at Mike's Pastry. Mike's Pastry is one of many bakeries and cafes in Boston's North End and is well-known for its delicious cannolis. Over the course of my time at MIT, I've had many treats from Mike's Pastry - but, as

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened! Politics is happening! Blogging is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter anymore because I'm not at my laptop enough. Isn't that astonishing? Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  guess my point is - all of you heading to MIT soon, GET EXCITED 'CAUSE ... cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our ... "Champagne" being served (left). Hunt co-organizer Matt '02 (right) is dressed ... Hunt is underway, and for our team, it's so far, so good... more updates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... implications for Simmons, MIT's newest dorm, only a few years old. It is West ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT ... Pluto, much crisper than the 1996 Hubble photo. Right now the probe is ... months before all the data is fully transmitted. But when the data is fully

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  told you that MIT is filled with nerds who are ultra-competitive and just ... problems/misconceptions one by one: Misconception #1: MIT is filled with ... . Everyone I have met at MIT is extremely passionate about something. If you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the ... . Exactly how good is MIT's music? Well, I've performed in the Concert Choir ... the piece "MIT-oriented." Among other influences, the piece is based on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  . I think part of the time spent at MIT is about finding things you love ... if I have any skill, it’s definitely overloading myself. MIT is ... many close friends that I met later in my MIT journey. And many of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  is why we like to let YOU blog CPW. Bryan started this system two years ... this year!). So, here it is, the official "I want to write a guest entry for the MIT blogs about my experience at CPW" rules. > You have to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a bubble in that, as an MIT student, you start to forget what the outside ... Several weeks ago MIT had their famous fall Career Fair where

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008