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• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October, and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... ?" Looks like you're right on schedule to me! Aside from taking standardized

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... would be forced to rely on their weaker hand as much as possible. In the ... get back to MIT or that Ben will buy me one to advance the cause of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back to a five-story structure on which three Greek letters are barely ... —Bonfire—only to realize a grievous error. He had forgotten to get any macaroni

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... 'll be getting married in September -- our wedding website is here, for ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don’t like it, you have narrowed your options. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve really

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... – researchers fold to academic pressures and compromise on the quality of their work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  booklets on topics ranging from sci-fi to personal memoir. I picked up a ... stood at booths, trading tips on where to print, their favorite inks and ... part of your life, you’re an artist.” A few of them urged me to consider

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  studying. If you want to go out with your friends to dinner on a Friday night ... these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... college is trying new things, exposing yourself to new people , and exposing

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work ... followed up on a friend's suggestion to read American Gods, finally ... Prose," which was a birthday gift from a new German friend. Reading it on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  to after your little brother has insisted on listening to Owl City and ... play as you're getting ready to head back to the 'Tute, because, well ... - This is the kind of song you put on a blog post to see if anyone knows

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... , so i didn't get emails about new blog posts. (don't worry, we'll be here when you get back.) i had a list of distractions on hand, so i can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  be sure to frequently check the email account that you list on your ... admission to MIT. MIT has its own application – we are not on the Common ... couple things we want you to know as you begin filling out your application

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  's incredibly hard to live on your away from home, especially with your friends ... recommend finding new roommates. You're going to want space and not be able ... . It's important to establish this early on with your roommates if you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  days for your MyMIT tracking system to reflect new documents faxed to us ... . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... many additions I have made to my vocabulary since I commenced my study at ... Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  you're asked to put a list of extracurriculars on your blogger ... with all of you on these blogs, to answer your questions - to try and ... fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride ... to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006