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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to the States, and I've been happily living at Berkeley, CA, for the last 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process ... ="Yes, I counted."]17 steps[/annotation] from my bed to my desk, and opening

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A ... , also at 3 am. I don’t know if PUF stopped screaming at 3 am or if I just ... . sitting on my mcat books but specifically only the one I was currently using

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... , since then I've seen some comments on other blogs asking things like "Oh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else -- but I was wrong." I don't know if this ... more chromatograms to run or users' manuals to peruse. So I think that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... Island, I stayed in my room overlooking [annotation note="Kresge Auditorium

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end of this week, to be precise. Once January 29th comes and goes, I will ... realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land acknowledgement statement, as adapted from mit's statement. the land on which i ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a ... running lemonade stands. I'll get a real job someday.) Moments of pain are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for ... dish (i use this one because it comes with a nice lid) and pour the ... ) * * * * * * * over IAP i took a class on software-defined radio taught by MIT Lincoln

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  Earlier this week, I finished my last exam as an MIT undergrad. It was a bittersweet moment; I was elated that I’d made it through not just ... the most challenging class I’ve ever taken) but four years of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which linked to the following letter: Dear Ms. C: I am truly sorry to inform you ... ? University of Pennsylvania or Cornell University? :) If anyone thinks I should

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... ... ...first I tested the water with Bao '07 and Ling '07 (Kendall '07 was taking ... could see how much fun I found it, but those pictures will remain unseen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  about them. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing--I never would have met ... random fire alarm at Burton-Conner. (I WAS SO EXCITED) Long long ago, I ... somehow determined by its physical structure. I think Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... as a collection of significant places Mitali frequented. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  nearly two years ago, I co-wrote this blog discussing my experiences ... semester, i started dancing on Kinematix, a Northeastern team, which means I ... pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020