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• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins ... , unbelievably, half-over, zooming by in a way that it didn't seem to do last year ... I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  . Convince the adMITs to come to CPW. Getting them to come to campus is the best way to help them find their place at MIT. Get advice from alumni about the future or get inspired by their lives in general. Have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10.302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  test after white belt, you have to get “checked-off” by people or ... Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  , because ~college is a time to explore~ and the closer I get to my future the ... -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  gone by. So if you come to campus, I hope you'll take a tour. You won ... , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth ... when she was a new tour guide. The following summer when I went to talk

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to ... a trip to good ol’ South Florida, I checked in and printed out my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  ,[/annotation] so we took a picture by the camp fire and sent it to our professor, who ... had such a good time! to get there, we had to take the T and then the ... college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just ... of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch. So usually, when I get a good story, or more precisely when something happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  pharmacy to get cough drops. In addition, a Kazakh teacher at Shoqan had ... a melody played by the elementary schoolers on [annotation note="a ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  [annotation note="we bought a big can and froze ice cubes of it to use one by one ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the ... out loud to my parents, they'd say "I think we've done a pretty good job

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  They say that the best way to get something important done is to do ... room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  ’s a real thing) to trying to get to find classes when buildings 26 and ... picture below). I am aiming to become a certified pirate by taking pistol ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  hands with a rueful expression and said to me "That’s like asking me to ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single blog post. So I've decided to adopt a strategy that I learned from grad

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he ... time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  pursued by a company called TransCanada, that seeks to invest ~5.4 billion ... means of capitalism. According to a poll commissioned by the American ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  practice, and a couple long shifts on the ambulance before I get to fly back ... 's starting to get a little old because a lot of them are red-eyes and I am ... how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  share a lot of similar goals in getting the children to love learning ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic ... . Darryl and Marvin '10 are working on a project that uses pedal power to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010