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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students, professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... in that class was fine-tuning our ears by being guided all over MIT

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my MIT class. It was quite a party with a record number of classmates and their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston was. Well, obviously, the answer to that is "visit MIT," so we took ... (mellophone, MIT '09), all recently graduated from my high school. It turns out ... three or four random facts I know about MIT. "Due to a zoning ordinance

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is ... general existentialism.[annotation note="he is also taking the Chinese ... Chinese reading cards and there is a final video project presenting a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... write a peppy post about personalities (which is still on the way for a ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... misconceptions that MIT is easy when you study biology, but at the same time it ... only / you won't be lonely / even if the sky is falling down" 6:14 AM

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  . (This is the most stereotypically MIT thing I can possibly think of, and I ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters ... abbreviated “MIT” has more or less eclipsed its expanded form. With 3 characters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  gone,[/annotation] and MIT is coming back to life. Students are back on ... Summer has [annotation note="in academic calendar only. it is ... bloggers to share anything and everything about their MIT experience: what it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... other MIT student where we had breakfast and dinner provided. Classes were

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic ... ): obtain mushrooms of various types. shiitake is pretty good. obtain ... . ginger is important. garlic can also be nice chop everything up into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  , we were walking by the moat of the MIT chapel, which is just an empty ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... this is that when it’s cold, it snows, which is pretty much the best. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... viscosity of eggs. I drink soup from a can, except that this is semantically

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a ... much intrigue and humorous dialogue (the book is quite entertaining

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  I get the feeling that everybody is very jittery about the multiple ... MIT, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about the money situation and ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  consensus is that this behavior will begin at least by the two-day student ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in tonight after class and said, "See you guys in December"), Adam is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  -chasers, dispassionate hoop-jumpers, what have you. At MIT, while these people certainly ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... the atmosphere of 18.032 was just different. 18.03 is in 10-250, one of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... conference in January, I talked with a few MIT alums, as well as Random ... does matter. Ew. Everyone said: a publication is a golden ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to educating the MIT community about beef. (Note: this is a club event, not a ... real MIT students doing their own differential equations homework. Very

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... ! Movie! Two things I do significantly less of when I’m at MIT is drive and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  . Is it fair, then, for me to whine about my pain of being apart from MIT ... 's ridiculous, thinking of places as having emotions. But it's not like MIT is ... Cross-posted from my blog, which is where I write these days. One If

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024