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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  fix that to something more normal but messing up by half ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don ... about to say that.” For starters, there's D-Lab a trilogy of courses

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... a reward for being the first person to arrive at spring registration ... bitch, so get more copies if you can! this message was sponsored by Wow I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  for any current adMITs to make their decision based on this post, but ... collecting clean audio. If you've gotten to the point where you're getting ... appreciative but balanced way; I had never been exposed to the very New England

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways ... directions is impressive, we are not actually impressed by the inability to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... food or a milkshake at nearby Quincy Market, and get super close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  managed to get one percent higher than what I needed to get an A for the ... , telling me that we're going to school (for some odd reason, I never used an ... to anything significant (like graduating, for example), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... opposed to the crucible, the furnace where you gather new glass. Yes, it ... practice session getting over it. By the end, my deep sadness has faded, out

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was ... libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for a new graduate dorm, pioneered a center for synthetic biology

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I ... draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it ... TikTok - I'm so sorry. Spotify - to get my good music in! Lots of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  way to New Hampshire! We ended up driving for an hour to a Cracker ... final projects. CMS.300 My final project for CMS.300 was to create a 10 ... typically known for having a lot of budget dedicated to it. I chose the game

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they ... patterns for function. Similarly, this cover letter is difficult for me to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  neglecting to take care of myself by taking time for myself, and ignored the ... new, but I just don't think it was the right thing for me to do in the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  to waive the application fee for anyone who cannot afford it. But don ... 'll have to wait patiently for the good ol' US Postal Service, who were good enough to employ my father for so many years. I'll keep you up to date as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  costume, then searched my room for a fridge, with grand plans to get Thai ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... quarter of a million people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder by the Thames

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ’s good for me to do something new. And it’s an exciting problem ... über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf   ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  before they get here. Then they need to rest." Have you noticed that this ... weather EVERY year exactly when everyone wants to get home.) I'm sick of ... originally going to be longer and angrier. And delivered by a hit man. A hit

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... it's a state-mandated requirement for MIT students to get flu shots ... -campus, having to get tested twice a week, and all the new rules they have. We talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... moved west to Palo Alto for my master's and decided to stay when I ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  . Making things work. Thursday afternoon: Swing by lab to finish up some ... ) rehearsal to prep for our upcoming Rite of Spring CD recording session and ... geeks out as I visit the National Gallery of London to see works by Saurat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013