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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  intended to train students as comissioned officers for the US Armed forces ... great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  join us for dim sum. He said sure, and now we spend almost all our time ... Ocean away. I was ready for new streets, new faces, new classes and ... , signed up for every activity ever, and enjoyed rushing around from one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  while to figure out exactly what I should look out for when choosing ... choosing classes. Everyone has a different goal for their MIT career: someone ... [annotation note="Or whichever future semester I'm planning for."]this semester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  start budgeting" as he covered lunch for us again and my IOU tab grew. My ... given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries ... estimating my expenses, I was off by over $100 for Groceries and off by over

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life ... decides to grab a healthy patient who shows up for a checkup. He takes the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  hold it for Matthew, who had come for this recitation, and declare, it is ... than we think.  i walked into the first workshop for my short play with ... very, very stuck. but, i am still completing my assignments for my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  talk about it for that long– I just need to know that the conversational ... forced them to do a math competition for extra credit, or maybe they just ... . Perseveration is when someone gets stuck on a topic or an idea. For me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (2), ironically out of respect for my physical health. On the way ... medical test for broken toes and bullet wounds is whether or not you can ... lobes, since that's the part of the brain that distinguishes us as human

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and ... nice day outside for once - Virginia has been ridiculously hot recently ... shelf. Each of us has two sheets of Emacs commands taped to the wall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  sentiments: *dislike* for not recognizing your own awesomeness, but *like ... very much, but uh... why?" These comments aren't fishing for compliments ... . Prestigious institutions are particularly fertile soil for pridefulness: plant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little guilty for bringing such a lame demonstration, I filled up a film canister ... imagination. On Sundays, I volunteer on a pediatrics floor for infants and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... America(n literature). In the US, there is very little magic in stories ... arrangements for songs and they usually sing pretty well-known stuff (the Logs

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  Report from MIT Medical. Instructions for obtaining your MIT computing ... is the one that generates the most excitement. For many students, it ... care about you, here are some tips for choosing an email address: You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to ... a UROP for [annotation note="Independent Activities Period - the month

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... [annotation note="Pass/No Record, an MIT policy where, for your first semester

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  Among Us, all in the name of "socializing" and "building community". For ... company-of-the-week's mission. I made my way through three interviews for ... next night there was an infosession for Splash, with Thai food, then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  next semester. This week, it's time for a slightly different discussion ... for being somewhat spammy and prone to flame wars) thread that got ... what the magic is at every level. Besides setting one up for plenty of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... . After coming to MIT I stopped studying languages for three semesters ... language skills. So for instance, if I want to practice Spanish, and since I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015