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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... , December 1 12:01 am: The plane shakes, service carts squeaking behind us ... , inspired by Cory’s amazing NaNoWriMo progress (he wrote a novel). The city

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

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to be a killer, since after the Physics test and some dinner, I ended up working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... .[/annotation] The past few days have been the shortest window I've ever had between the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years.  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  : the Apple Bake. This annual event celebrates fall by having the floors of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art.  The Burton-Conner Graduate Resident Tutors (GRTs) both plan and organize

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT problem sets. The 17.803 section also discusses why MIT right now is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to ... there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize that there are only so many hours in the day. I just didn’t do a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the ... so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I ... physics, but today I’m here representing the American Astronomical Society

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  months. Yay!!! Either that or you're gearing up and anxiously awaiting the release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... out in the real world. That's right, electricity bills, rent, gas

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break ... and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... ." Yep. The students here at MIT may be on spring break, but the office is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier today, I received an email from Sivakami '11, asking me to do the same

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  recitation for the semester - since we don't have class next Friday, and the following week consists of an orgo exam, and the week after is dead week, and the week after is (ahhh) finals. - I finished my last bag of popcorn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  into something disproportionately large and cumbersome, like the Snorlax ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people assembled in my floor lounge singing the original Pokémon theme song making

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is the ChemE building), I actually have time to shop at Trader Joe’s at least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010