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• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent ... affiliate, WHP-CBS, was holding auditions at the Harrisburg East Mall, which ... shows that I could make time to watch during my first two years at MIT. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... we are at this crazy school on the Charles and what we're not. We are ... braggarts, grade-grubbers, or unearned wealth. You can have a life at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  discussion of Clay Aiken's vignette-writing abilities at excellent neighborhood ... . Monday: Sam's Mom stuck around long enough to take me grocery shopping at ... evening" extends until at least 2 AM and readily accepted my slides, noting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... happy endings, even if you don't end up at your first-choice college. Just ... that actually has four distinct seasons, go look at the leaves sometime

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  i remember from looking at data, he at least got pretty close. one ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a ... the game plus all expansions, but we weren't playing at a high enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  pugh charts comparing all the things I was involved in at MIT and Rocket ... content in this blogpost is based off of notes I found when looking back at ... . MIT Rocket Team: a student run maker team at MIT dedicated to developing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 ... . December 31st of 2015 was my last day of work at Triad Speakers in Portland

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where ... sit down at a table on the first floor with my juice, turn on Taylor ... much separated in age from you, if at all. He says something that I don

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  looking to learn something new to check it out at ocw.mit.edu! the 18 ... [annotation note= "every MIT student is required to take at least eight HASS ... from this course. The most popular questions are discussed at the end of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown ... most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can ... January at MIT can look like—I know I sure did :) Hi, I’m Heidi Z. ‘27, a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  your high school self would’ve expected! After five semesters at MIT ... response to the application essay question “what department or program at MIT appeals to you,” I wrote:  Pursuing Course 6.3 and UROPing at the Media Lab

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  . June 5th, Copenhagen 6pm They lost my bags in Amsterdam. The man at ... I passed by smelled amazing. 10 pm, at the bar of my hostel I ... dozens of people snore, cough, sneeze. At 6 am alarms start going off, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  profile. i peer over at his phone, and indeed, the guy is quite shirtless ... couple times after that, once at a journalism convention in senior year of ... at columbia don't say poggers," jeff told me. "they just don't laugh at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  busy with classes, and clubs, and grabbing lunch at the stud with friends ... -size loft beds, which were a pain to climb onto, especially at night, with the ... places: to the Christian science plaza, which looks beautiful at night; to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  ‘internship’ at MIT, you mean an internship with an outside company. Research has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am ... research. Some promised that every student could do research at least once in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  antsy. Friday turned into Saturday and I was staring up at the underside ... needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... hallway playing with a hyper Kiko before I went back to my room. -- At 3 AM

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  even post anything at all because that spark that was once there is now ... it is at MIT. I cried if I didn't understand things. Got frustrated and threw things at walls, broke things, even went as far as to banging my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT ... officers at MIT are expected to work 6 days out of the week, to meet our

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... everything set up at first, since this is my first Linux system and I was ... when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020