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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  of football is played over a three-million-yard stretch for more than a ... most I've ever seen of the Super Bowl was Kendrick Lamar's performance ... , so my lack of football knowledge is embarrassing. The Alabama

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million ... fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... hosed again, here's a picture of an otter for you." (Oh man I love otters so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  called Kings of Chaos that attracted over 10 million page views a day and ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... . If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  your floor's chances of winning by entering in all five! Happy Cooking ... that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , and a million other things. Of course, if that's not cool enough for you ... , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  -y things, Seiji and I would scout out all 2.2 million square feet of exhibit ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the negative counterpart of scretious, much like “secretious.” For awkward

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of ... the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... diversity." I have huge feet, as you know. One of my favorite childhood ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... between 2018 and 2021, so keep in mind that some of my experience may be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... representative of the city itself) once a weekend. Honestly, the activation energy

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  : everyone at MIT calls me the King of Boston. And by “everyone” I of course ... -year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... some of the subjects the rest of your coursework will likely build upon

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like ... people several years in college. and instead of being held in a dormitory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022