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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  to share this play-by-play to make a point: This was a good day for me ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!  

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... about what I needed to do next for my physical and mental health. Nearly ... proud of me for getting help. Which at first felt really patronizing. Why

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... had forged many new bonds (which remain close to this day) and had a ... obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  route to getting fired, and for good reason. Unless I was actually sick or ... of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don ... in a tea shop with a friend. the low barrier of entry to try new

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  bottom of the page, were getting all of the traffic. For months I ... seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon ... to see it. Here's the new one: In September 2004, the MIT admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Admitted Students A quick update.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into their MyMIT portal for new content, including a Class of 2010 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this fresh comments space for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... they want to do for the rest of their lives, anyway? As I was saying ... strains with these four genotypes to characterize any new strain. When you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  friends, but also as a chance to get poke bowls at the mall, try out a new ... , extracurriculars, and preparing for the [annotation note="Oh, how I hate to remember ... , I don’t want to seem like I’m ungrateful for my parents. Speaking from

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by ... year you're smarter, have money, and have a new addition to your resume ... well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  know the adults that work here, so it's wierd for me to do it. But there ... know, MIT affiliates have access to the New York Times archive dating back to 1851, as well as tons of other newspapers and magazines? The New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less ... , classes where I will never talk to anyone new and classes where I could have ... .  In the summer, I went back to Chicago, where I had been for the summer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  reenergized my desire to experience Wagner. Prospects for me not only managing to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... , we travelled to New York to the Metropolitan Opera, to go see Wagner

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... by the locals. After a week of this, we went to Lima and Cuzco for a ... "Community Walks Today, for the Youth of Tommorow." All the proceeds will go to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  ever wake up at around 6am every day to get to school by 7ish. This clock ... In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  ." Orientation lasts around a week, during which you go to events to (for lack of a ... ready to help you out. For women, there are spa parties, movie nights, and ... ourselves into a wing, they took us out for dinner, from pizza to Greek food

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  to different stores for different foods to get the best deals, a ... because most people aren’t taking classes. For a month, we get to catch up ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... day for admitted students to join the incoming class. However, Harvard ... if she can apply MIT later when she changes her mind to apply MIT for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  new communities that you love, to fill the holes left by the ones you ... adjust to covid, and also started my own club for making viral educational ... and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... art and make door decorations to liven up your new dorm rooms! While

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  did a little jig (Yes, I do that too) and went winging off to Google to ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Many of my readers know by now that if you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer, you'll find a pretty heavy

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008