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• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  doesn't necessarily mean the viewers did. First of all, she killed Shannon ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  secret of room decorating is that if you don't do it all within the first ... So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... little too dark, especially in sun-deprived New England. The name of that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... ?” My friends were right about the first two things, but I assured them I ... I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... first urop the summer before sophomore year, like you did, be too late? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  reading and this first quarter they are reading Dune in preparation of the ... of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... first time I referred to MIT as “home” freshman spring. At the time, it had felt too soon, almost as if I were betraying the sanctity of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having ... me a through the molasses stereotype of a 9-to-5 desk job. I’ve blended ... : Rush out of the ridiculously muggy apartment. For reasons unknown to me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Bloggers of old have written about the "101 Things To Do Before You ... Cruise Check out the New England Aquarium Visit the top of the Prudential Center See a show at the Museum of Science Ice skate on Frog Pond Go

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  project with a team for the first time ever at hackMIT instead of just ... lot of busywork, it was nice to *feel* things for the first time in a ... between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of the MIT community. No really, why? Because of the free stuff, obviously

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first ... the whole essence, [1] because I need to be a senior, because ... the FPOPs started, an FPOP being a first-year pre

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... Roll (NYC), August   Showing Myself that I Can For one of the first ... it, one of the first moves in the slalom skating world. She didn’t go

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  ! Both of our art is in it! 18) Bottle caps of the first ginger we ever ... the 'tvte (for the first part, go here). Throughout the school year, we ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  picture!!! The really pretty panoramic picture you see on top of this page ... freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... , and avoid pseting (the opposite of punting is tooling). But here in the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  commits the crime (murder) within the first 10 pages, and then spends the ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... angsty kid back then. I think the most common piece of college app

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest ... step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad ... because of the significantly higher prices. Good for a last minute gift or a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006