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• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I ... 's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share ... what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven't been blogging as much ... one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is great, because lots of tests aren’t fun. But because this test is so late

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent ... average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  -minute bike ride from MIT, which seemed decent. After touring it, however ... . I'm so, so happy that this is all over. Signing the lease was such a ... to some degree. So...I've only been through the clusterfuck that is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  else. While chatting with a MIT graduate who is now in the top rungs of ... culture is great and everything, but I live there because I ended up hanging ... ’s--to me, EC is a home, not a social statement. Like my internship: it is a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this ... humanities side is often neglected.   Ragù (Bolognese) sauce in its birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  . Taking a break from MIT has been a great privilege, one I'm aware is not an ... MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  this summer is tackling. Tulip, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab LuminAR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... . Work is divided into two-week sprints, where we organize ourselves into

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... represent how small this room is. It's smaller than my AP Chem teacher. She ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  took place in the Boston Sheraton hotel and MIT's admission's office ... recently been through the application process but is now on the other side of ... began we realized that all of the font was in Times New Roman which is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  with all my stuff and were staying at the Hotel at MIT, which is oddly ... now that my schedule is really wacky, I'll be updating more often! (I ... hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal. The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  was AMAZINGLY inspirational, and columnist Dave Barry, who is always ... MIT admissions crew together for a dinner reservation at Bern ... exceeded our MIT per diems but it was worth every penny I had to spend - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  As you may or may not know, my job this summer is turning turkeys ... Maillard reaction. This is a non-enzymatic browning reaction which is usually ... , and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  MIT has an Independent Activities Period, which we call IAP, during ... are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year ... friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... ! Over the past three weeks, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team competed ... , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I ... with physics, muahaha). 5.Not knowing calculus at MIT is like a fish not ... magenta. The three most common paths I see for the Math GIR at MIT is: -If

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008