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• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  [a brief hiatus from the baby bloggers' intro posts - don't worry, there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your ... freshmen are offered sophomore standing, but I’d estimate that the percentage

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  -year-old brother play the saxophone. On January 2nd, I was sitting at our dining room table, planning out my year. 2017 is the year that I ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... , dreams and struggles in the hopes that someone will benefit from my sharing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... like science? 11. Do you want MIT to completely change the way you think ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  So I shared my blog entries with Alicia, the MISTI-Spain Program ... could mention the MISTI program?" Uh, duh Laura. Sometimes I wonder about myself, and the people who admitted me to this place. So, the background

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  nap on the beach and on the drive back, I remarked, "It's so nice not ... the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was a fresh experience that I really needed. I remember seeing the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  not only is the sun shining, the flowers are also blooming. Daffodils ... . Boats are staggered along the river and are disqualified if/when the boat behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly wrote, "I just wish the bloggers themselves posted more." Well, there have been several things holding me back from that. The stacks and stacks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... -hitting for me in the comments... ------------------------------------- Vinayak wrote, "Just a quick question. When I print preview the MIT application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  so far in 2009. Fact 2: in the four short semesters after enrolling at ... terminal to another, NRT has the cleanest toilets you can possibly imagine ... , from the impeccable European way that the lettuce, tomatoes, and ham are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not ... interested in applying to MIT. I have one question about the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... parents dropped you on the head as a baby. Now picture that resentment, times a thousand. That’s probably the amount of hate that my phone feels

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days ... ="attachment_116443" align="aligncenter" width="456"] when afterthoughts burn and the ... was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.” – Ralph Merkle, nanotechnology researcher and cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007