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• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  all, but MIT will never be the same. Because MIT is about the people. It ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make ... *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  ... that is another bite of my life at MIT. As has been a frequent ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  people. FRESHMAN YEAR IS OVER! 1/4 of my time here at MIT is officially ... . Many of MIT's dorms lie along the same stretch of road known as "Amherst ... "Memorial Dr." Adding to it is that everybody just calls it dorm row. View

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , under tech! MIT is a place where I can play a heated bout of Super Smash ... name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would ... 5K with Brad, who is a marathon runner like myself. Sadly, he became a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying ... spent the past two years in Cambridge, Massachusetts at MIT. However, this ... with about 40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... Brain and Cognitive Sciences: The disorder is complex, both in its genes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  of… ordinary. MIT is pretty great, don’t get me wrong. But now, when I ... academics: MIT is flexible. That’s pretty cool. Last week, I decided to pursue ... challenging me to learn. MIT is the place that allows me to experiment and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking ... reasons the first reason is something i wrote about last time. last time i ... first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  is the most challenging thing about MIT, and what did it teach you that ... , though, is that I wanted to write something perfect and meaningful and ... perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  I was at MIT, I barely explored the city, so my knowledge of my surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I ... the North Point Park, which is a nice way to see the Leonard P. Zakim

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  As of one week ago, it is officially[annotation note="and oh boy does ... having a summer, only what The Ideal Nonexistent MIT Student would be doing ... it was my actual self, and not the Ideal MIT Student, who would be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  some profoundly absurd comment about being "appalled" that MIT would ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and ... numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... Campus Historian, is the ubiquitous and indispensable CourseRoad, an open-source 4-year academic planner. CoursedRoad collects all the data about MIT’s

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... contraption built by MIT Fraternity Phi Delta Theta. Then he was doused with ice water from another ten foot tall wooden contraption built by MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu ... :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 is AWESOME. Those of you whom I spoke with were funny, nice, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Best from staff

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  meeting more students and learning about what the MIT community is actually ... can admit that some MIT students are better cooks than I am. My goal is ... Information Session about MIT. Afterwards, I was visiting some teachers when I

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  torn over my options. I was mainly choosing between MIT (which is just ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  at MIT. As is often the case with one-person shows, Ms. De Cari was ... girl's romp through MIT's male math maze," and as neither a girl nor a ... companies (The Nora and Underground Railway Theater), is located on Mass Ave

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  's saying that MIT students aren't smart. What we're saying is that there are ... “trick way” or “back door” to get into MIT. Your application is not a game ... . Because the truth is that your SAT score, no matter how high it is, is not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa ... course, there is no such triangle drawn. the background is of the same ... perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021