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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  grounds. Well, that's not a feeling you often get. Yet only a week later ... notwithstanding, this is when you get your shit together for the semester ahead ... you recall was a miracle for me to get into, followed by 8.09. A solid

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some ... that Commons served all-you-can-eat lobster every night for about two ... ="This persisted in F entry until at least the mid 2000s. You can find evidence of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11/17, we should know this. Please fill out this form, so we can add a note to ... some brief updates. Sandy: If you have been affected by the storm, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our ... transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  professors, no matter where you are! ... : doing pretty well I see Catherine: you’re not doing so bad yourself ... , so, you got me. There was no ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  happened is Brookline Booksmith. They have regular author visits you can find ... type of books you can think of, at discounts of 70+%. The Winter and ... leaving campus, you can also go to the bi-annual MIT Press Warehouse Sale

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  ........ It can be in the most seemingly insignificant places that you will find ... big and if someone says you can't, go even bigger. Now actually ... really figure myself out, and I hope that while I do, you can, too. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  night and write my statement of purpose. (For grad school, you don't get to write essays about what you do in your free time -- they really don ... life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or boring, but, if you take

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  then you come to MIT, where relativity is not just a theory but a ... you were expecting something like “Freshmen baking apple pies” or ... allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  amount of Overleaf formatting can obviate the need for deleting content you ... note="hunter x hunter, if you're curious"]anime[/annotation] with two friends. i never get time to watch TV during the semester, so it was wild to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  , then write about them. I really don't know how I managed that. You can ... DID YOU KNOW? The drummers for the bands Queen and Duran Duran are ... them. So, someday in August, just remind me that I owe you two entries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you ... another and with my classes I don't even know what to do or where to go ... 't even figure out which company it was. I'm now at the point where I need

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  curiosity we have as a species I hope that gets into the minds and hearts of ... called albedo - between 1985 and 1995 when Pluto and Charon where regularly ... Postcards from Pluto where she shares all the different tasks from her job

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don ... curious if I still had access to things from my old job. Because you ... communications. The problem is, I’m starting to think that getting to this point

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  the sides, and you can't bring up the middle to be the same height as ... where i've been leaving lots of gaps everywhere because i can't find the ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  thirty-nine windows? well, you get used to it. and then you start taking ... )![/caption] and you can draw on the concrete walls (curved or non-curved) to your ... you can fit a bed in the right half of the room; no, i don't know how

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  no role in a student’s success. “you can make it anywhere,” we want to say to you. it’s true. i have proof from an admissions officer (from 50 ... have yet to be disappointed.  7. Some of them didn't get admitted to MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  need in order to build a project, and you can shop around if there’s a ... ) administration. You can also find two of Mitra's actual blog entries from Africa ... their numbers are growing. When you come on campus, in fact, it's almost

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008