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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  it's a mistake to make one-sided assumptions without experiencing it ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... took a weekend away to fall down a 3-mile trail. So not only do we get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to make is that Susan Hockfield was the best candidate by a landslide, and the fact that she also happens to be a woman reinforces the fact ... mom thinks that this makes me sound like a dirty old man. For the record

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot ... region, and which areas might be affected by it.) Once, she created a ... to talk personally with the professors. I was so excited by everyone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... to make a demarcation between then & now, still. i’m putting in the ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a ... gifts for a randomly-assigned other resident. At the dinner, we make two ... love and hugging. I was Secret Santa to Caitlin '15. We share a love of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... -digit decimal figure. How anticlimactic. This last semester passed by in a flash

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  reason to rush your application to us by November 1st, especially if you ... much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We ... "   We've added a question to the activities section where you can indicate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics ... energy into their cavity on their way through, corresponding to a specific ... , picked up a piece of chalk, and turned to the chalkboard. Those of us

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

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  with a Pinterest board dedicated to being an [annotation note="One of 16 ... hindsight, I see their point; I spent a lot of energy trying to maintain this ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... times but we never finish it.  I used to be a very decisive person

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  determined by the players; each player will submit a value from 50 to 300 with ... not determined by an objectively "correct" answer. Instead, a winning ... of being more preferred by the other players, so I decided to pick only

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  interesting time to be surrounded by tons of MIT students in a club far away ... :') I went to [annotation note="there's a lot to be said here about PR ... people at a club, and I saw another 20 or so on my 5 AM flight back to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... no bagels. I woke up on the floor of a dorm room the next morning to a ... minutes later, a wonderfully carbonated feeling began to bubble up inside me

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing ... When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  a different thing to different people. Don't assume you know what it ... 're getting your footing, it's not a requirement by any means. It's not a requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  in part by Staples. If anyone makes a particulalry great product, there's a real opportunity for it to become an actual product for Staples. 2 ... constantly working for each of those classes.   21A.100 (Intro to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea ... scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  cafes of the city. The familiar rituals of rural life gave way to a more ... home to the T Stop, from the T Stop, to a cafe, and from the cafe to work ... 'm reminded of the myriad ways in which transitioning to a prestigious

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... other intermittent meals. ...baked, I wanted to give baking a shot, too

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff ... caused Conner 4 and Conner 5 to become filled with a bunch of Asian people

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008