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• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  myself to get off the internet. The monkey was writhing around on the ... Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got ... 't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... friends this summer eventually turned into, “it’s too much effort to get ... officially enrolled! Step 5. Get yourself to Harvard The inefficiency of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... BREAKING NEWS: Stu Schmill '86 Named New Dean of Admissions - go wish ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to ... . Although I was almost falling asleep at that point, I seemed to gain a new ... too carefully calculated to have been produced by nature. I noticed that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Something to chalk about “These murals are f*cking rad” – Petey

  

  we have a whole new batch of murals, thanks to the talented artists ... from around the dorm. Big thanks to everyone who sent me pictures for ... MIT is a 168-acre playground for the world’s brightest undergrads

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for ... to get party hats, but I couldn't find any at the store, alas. Dorm ... for people who have decided to switch dorms. Final dorm assignments go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a ... Facebook wall, linking me to the first trailer for Sherlock Season 3 (EEEEEEE ... semester, MIT undergraduates are flooded by e-mails reminding us to fill out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  wondering, are you able to mix and match old SAT and new SAT math scores? For ... ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who ... application says that it is recomended, but not required to get an interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  was much easier to do exceptional things and be recognized for it. Now ... get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  anything, and I ended up being assigned to two duos—“Maria, mater gratiæ" by ... "Memento rerum Conditor" for Soprano/Alto or Tenor/Bass, by Fauré, a famous ... through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  I'm kind of iffy on, seeing as it's really hard for me to pick up new ... , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... than classes and career development. The Gym + Intro to Weightlifting for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My ... wonderful way to take my MIT journey above and beyond! Living and working in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... to achieve a genuinely positive result for the community, so I felt it was definitely worth blogging. Before I get back to packing, I have two

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  by the shore, wash it, boil it for a while to get rid of anything it ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  rewritten (and apparently perfomed) by scientologist Danny Elfman, but the new ... , they exceeded their maximum occupancy and had to close at 11:30 to get ... toward your GPA at MIT. Therefore, your goal, in general, is to get more

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  resigned myself to the fact that I was not going to get any information until ... late, refreshing the New York Times election tracker, attempting to work ... (alternatively, civil dusk to civil dawn)  to be awake continuously for 24 hours

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  —like trading your morning walk to the barn for a crowded hustle to the Kendall ... to inform how we create welcoming spaces, but also to help me get through the New England winter: by embracing the coziness during the cold

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024