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• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... return to your seats.] By the way, the alum at Muir Woods also mentioned

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  , explaining that he "wasn't expecting to have to get up and teach." This earned ... some of Boston." Not sure how quickly we're going to get power back ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  ’s because no college is going to magically transform you without your consent ... not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter ... Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  getting excited to take photos with characters. I didn't allow myself to get ... , who gets excited to see Lightning McQueen, whose favorite movie is Cars ... twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  . Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there ... So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  and want the picture you have to hand your camera to somebody so that ... time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... we are nerds that are totally socially inept and get all flustered

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and ... is my best friend. Have it on hold, you’re ready to go! Swipe, swipe ... 's getting hard to hold on. But I will let you know. // P.S. Here's a video

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily ... It is 2:45 AM. You have just finished your 5.111 pset. The handwritten solutions took you 10 pages, and you're very fed up with drawing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted From The Waitlist? If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the…

  

  If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the Admitted Students Portlet in your MyMIT account. Go sign the MIT '10 guestbook!

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 16, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  undergraduates play at least one varsity sport. If you're a prospective student ... your sport by completing a recruitment form. Depending on your potential contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  application of course, or what you want to do with your life, and so forth - but ... feeling stressed out right now. You can use the comments below to blow off some steam with your fellow applicants, on two conditions: 1) don't talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  dorms at MIT, you get to pref who you want to live with, what floor you ... around you. This year, I was lucky enough to get all my preferences ... week. Thankfully my tests are spread out, allowing me to focus on one

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  Git, a version control system that helps to coordinate/collaborate your ... a bus and spend an hour getting to Nashoba Valley Ski Area. You get a one-hour lesson and then you're free to ski or snowboard for the rest of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  will take an eternity to contemplate which ice cream flavor to get. sure ... of my life acquiesced to the [annotation note="when your motivation ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  and the idea is that you’re just supposed to follow your stream of ... pressure on myself to get things right the first time and i get frustrated ... work with you’re forced to be more particular about each one i think i

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Maseeh! A look into MIT's newest dorm

  

  's extremely convenient that I literally just have to cross the street to get to ... much that it's starting to get cliche, but I love the people here! I ... think the world knows much about Maseeh, so I'm going to give an e

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  -die in a car, and I’m still unsure why sixteen-year-olds are excited to get ... to get me -- I’d finally found my fellow lizard people! Socializing on ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  purpose of making a profit and getting drugs that will make it to patients ... position in academic research. Here the pay is good, you get your own lab, and you get to decide what that lab works on. However, in order to do

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016