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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  to me is my fraternity. I came to MIT saying that joining a fraternity ... time. There was one other person from my high school coming to MIT the ... stints at CTY. What am I to do? I was going to MIT. At that point, my mind

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... those crazy intimidating MIT students. I guess what I'm getting at here is this: the point of college is to become educated. And in some ways, MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  I graduate tomorrow, so I guess this is my last entry here, or ... , making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... people, mostly MIT people. I'll be working in Cambridge, as a software

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  lecture, and at some point thinking: "is this what mathematicians do all day ... questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is ... mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  say I've felt at home at MIT ever since is probably a gross ... that MIT is easy, and this journey has been full of incredible ups and ... unpolished, initial form, complete with pauses and rephrasings, is here

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  mode of transport when the weather is (reasonably) nice, it's a great way ... - my 401(k) is more conservatively invested than my grandmother's, who admittedly is a baller - so I also love the Charles River Bike Path, which runs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea ... the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is ... look closer, you'll see that "gonna" is actually becoming a grammatical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  little to make sure that everybody is happy.  I think about the way these ... example, and I smile. When I first got to MIT, I didn’t feel immediately ... surprises me about all of these changes is that I never see them happening in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT ... slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... 've gone too far. Whoever wrote MIT's graphic identity rules would writhe in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It ... it also started to feel mandatory. Then I got to MIT and stopped ... still confused during my chemistry lecture because what even is the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  . Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s ... ) “they would probably say ‘He’s Spock from Stah Trek!’” Now Nimoy is 83 ... , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by MIT ... length, but a flugelhorn is fatter. It's like what would happen to a ... 'm aware), which is a little room equipped with a piano and music stands, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  is an event where over two thousand high school students come to MIT’s ... blog post, and here it is. This came out as an experiment to figure out ... eating habits too. Sunday I wake up late, as [annotation note="the Harvard-MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  time. MIT is the opportunity of a lifetime and you can shape your ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if ... is really valuable: wherever you go, whatever you do, remember to check

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip ... -by-the-Sea Play DDR in the Game Room Go rock climbing in Dupont Check out the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project ... dark and stumbling across roadblocks. The second theme is talking. Lots

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first ... that MIT's Musical Theater Guild is doing this season."]'A Chorus Line ... . I challenged myself. At least to me, that’s what MIT is all about.

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019