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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  sister and me: On Saturday night, after a long day of unpacking, my ... Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  pictures of home

  

      a concert / jazz and reggae / late night conversations / pizza / checking checklists / days so warm and restless and impatient / writing and finding poetry

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the ... It's May 1! Welcome to the MIT Class of 2010! If you have sent back ... comments. We're excited to have you as a member of the class! We've spent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... interpretation of the phrase focuses on the regret portion and says that you should ... regretted something and realize that there wasn’t really a benefit to any of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... hard on the stack of previous samples I was holding. To my surprise and ... nearby pencil and piece of chalk and measured 1.5 on the Mohs hardness

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  , Jupiter and more! The view from the Green Building, the home of MIT's Earth ... tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet ... some fun with them on the roof! Adam S. '14 wanted a photo of him in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I ... : Oregon, my home, New Mexico, my camp-home, and Massachusetts, my new and unfamiliar home. The coasts, west and east; the mountains—high desert and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  means I'm on my way home to spend the holidays with family and friends. It ... fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... weather home to Ryan, Marissa, Seth, and Julie Cooper Nichols. Ben, do you

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  that I was making clothing out of duct tape and decided to go all out. I ... , which was sort of interesting.) I showed the outfit to Adelaide, and she ... halls- in fact, I've never eaten in any of the house dining halls (except

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  's performance live on the airwaves, and they keep a streaming archive of their ... One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... 'll be spending most of my summer days, chilling with centrifuges and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  Cambridge trying to shake off its 700 year layer of dust and pick up some MIT ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... their college of choice. Admissions are tough and Cambridge engineers are

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  pages on the Internet. It was a pretty hefty couple of paragraphs and our ... kind of fiddling with my spring semester schedule here and there. It ... two UROPs and so on, so forth. I've decided on a schedule now that would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  metrics. For the first half of my internship, I researched on and documented ... inbox. Companies were hosting multitudes of events on campus, drawing us ... code, polished websites, sophisticated projects. On mine: a spatter of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... forever and stand on the wall, waiting for some moment of certainty, but it ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  , departments, administration, and admissions office have worked tirelessly on ... ’ve done a pretty bang-up job. We’ve got TONS of fun and interesting events ... , offer advice, joke around, and tell all of you, face to face, that if I

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  cooking, so I don’t know what I would do with meat at home, and only two of ... ’s. And like, that’s okay, or at least as okay as any of the other countless ... , and my car back home guzzles gas to the tune of 20 miles per gallon, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  combination of technology and fashion design. By December I knew I would be ... on a huge dream, the office moves very quickly and the app is scheduled ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  some of my friends who were international students wouldn’t go home ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who ... from the semester. And I was alone. My roommate left the Saturday of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  catch up on current events through the vast library of Newsweek, Time, and ... opportunity and artistic statement. Think of it like that classic episode of ... same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005