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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the test was spent studying. (It did pay off with a great score -- 1540 -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... the fall semester of 2016, I ran for Senior Haus president with my ... feeling of power in me, coupled with optimism and idealism for what could

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold ... . Last night, Baker had a celebration with food, music, and our president ... , by learning the choreography you’re performing with your sisters. Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now ... 2018. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have offered ... Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and metallurgists

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  year.) On the shank with the Big Dome, a sign sits right by the dome ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... , the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  -fronts us with the necessity of considering the finite limits of our national ... . Democracy as we have known it for more than two hundred years is the fruit of ... national consciousness of the responsibility for providing education to all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get ... time when I ever have free time to use as I please. Right now, there ... this free time to do more work. That's not the most healthy mindset, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  come up with a relatively elaborate menu. I paid in sleep for not doing ... to only play for ONE MORE POINT, when one of the freshmen went down ... ’s an outline, with more detailed stories below. Peruse at your leisure

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  decided to be course 8. In her free time, she likes to play the violin and ... playing intramural sports like ice hockey and is very involved with her ... detector.) The composite sheet is then patterned with an array of 600

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  play] together.  But let's be real. I had no idea what I signed up for ... , and is set up in a discussion-focused style with debates and discourse. One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  , and I never liked it. My parents kind of forced me to play, along with ... for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know where each path will go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  to nature and a longing for it. Chang, A. Y. (2019). Playing nature ... This last week has been super, super hectic for me, hence my silence ... finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  - which will be coming soon, I promise. But it's silly to plow ahead with ... celebrate, get that energy out. You deserve it. =) For waitlisted applicants ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  favorite. The first issue can be read for free. Once upon a time, each of us ... 's list. UPDATE: Here's the 2021 and 2022 posts. Things I read for class None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... With Earth And Life that is the Boston traffic. This at least allows for ... with infinite wisdom, I realize that it’s nearly five p.m. I mumble an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... say, we aren't friends with "R" anymore. What a shitty way for a ... with him for a variety of reasons, but cutting the toxic people out of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  : Now, for a PSA. MIT Libraries is the collective organization of 8 ... , hence the title, and is in room 10-500. For those of you keeping track ... room is good for doing work. You can hear a pen drop. And it's pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  someone's house there for free. enough people defected to San Diego that I ... weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for week-long vacations with my friends ever since. but, from March 18 to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  so you can get a spot on the middle deck for the best views. (I arrived ... me) Boston Harbor Cruises says "getting there is half the fun," which ... " align="aligncenter" width="463"] view from the top deck[/caption] A note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  continue with them. I have this four bar loop I wrote the other day playing ... giving his students free tickets to a show he's playing. How rad is that ... !). It's crazy. I moved up here on the 19th of August, for my pre

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014