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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  six-week breaks and a summer vacation lasting from mid June to early ... by a single six-week break in January and a summer vacation lasting ... many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you ... allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... have the video for you. Our goal was to make an accessible, virtual tour

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons ... bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get inventive with a PC power supply. You can’t make this stuff up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  expected, meaning a number of folks had to stand. To those of you who stood ... helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... and times to schedule meetings, and I was uneasy about having a meeting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... 's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  that I was going to go into neuroscience. But I was becoming a little ... humans or anything. Even though there doesn't seem to be a big difference ... -9 is related to humans. As of now, 6-4 isn't officially listed as a major

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... only 2.5 weeks left here in Bend.  I have yet to experience a lot of what

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... burying myself in Oreos. So, this post is a best-effort -- but if you make ... got off to a great start because after I mentioned my Oreo quest to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school, for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the ... . It's a pretty good gig to be honest. Please note that *only* current ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  put the combined might of our six alarms together to make sure that we ... vaguely sprinkled around to still have fun. We stole snow off cars to make ... >:([/caption] After fooling around outside for a while we headed to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... seem a bit high, but that doesn't stop frat boys from trekking over to ... a barber in 5 years now. At least, not one where I had to tell them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... Boston. There’s a list of “101 things to do before you graduate” that ... get a cannoli And if you get a cannoli, you must find a nearby park to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build ... awesome events and have had a chance to collapse and sleep for the first ... Wait wait! Stop! Hold the presses! I have one more thing to add to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... 'm Rachel, possibly more frequently referred to by my Athena username, rfong ... collections of squiggly pencil lines. I won't lie: I'm going to be spending a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  , that makes you feel better about yourself. and yes, i was warned not to ... too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... enough to give me a small idea. it must feel worse to receive decisions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... so large that even a .5x wasn't zoomed out enough for me to get it all ... think I drew a piece of cake). Then, we were supposed to come in on a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of ... to know." * Pursuant to legal mumbo jumbo, I am not employed by Dial

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009