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• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  selection buttons that don’t always light up, and they all make a confusing ... hear her whir to life and go straight to you like a personal chauffeur. I ... friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  that was how it should be, and I wasn't sure how to make a decision to ... a few hours. I had an evening class, but I skipped it to make myself ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the ... Memorial Fund, which will support a Collier Medal to be awarded to people who

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  of my life—the SuperUROP corresponding to 6.UAR, a year-long class ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  lab by 9 AM -- I needed to run some gels and generally be a productive UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... doing 18.03 (diff eq) together; a smaller group gathers to do 8

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... people, including those who apply to MIT, have a difficult time thinking ... salient, and most likely to swing an admission decision in a highly

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  ! To Sarah: Come to CPW before you make a judgment. It's a lot more ... wanted to talk to me as a homeschooler. At some point, the organizer got ... friends later forced him to go to law school. And there were a couple of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  can, as long as you get permission to use a space, make sure you build ... things to at least a few people, and that is a part of what makes MIT so ... person, whether they're student, faculty, or staff, can make the choice to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  Admissions blogger. If you want to read a little bit about me, you can check out my bio here. If you want to find out a little more about me, feel ... blogging act, I would like to show you a completely new way to look at MIT

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  Maxwell's Equations in a Vacuum. Certain events, however, tend to stick out ... -cramming. Par example: one of MIT's best A capella groups decided to have a ... biology notes in a sleepthirsty stupor and was preparing to dive into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  musical gears.     Joey shifted from hardcore genre to a super catchy pop/rock genre and now writes and records a few songs each month. In addition to ... usually gets a sneak preview before Joey posts his songs to Youtube for the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  , op-amps, and other components to make a robot car move forward, move ... say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  and my voice. I decided to make the three posts different in some ways ... third, which was maybe a mix of both.  The thought was always to create ... frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  the ability to transfer a trait from one creature to another ... -lab that allows users to carry out a bacterial transformation and enables the ... the Media Lab, taught herself enough synthetic biology to create a small

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  me how to make dphie a home: I love you. I miss you all so much. I will ... . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a ... my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk ... promise to drop off the pants at Baker when I get a chance. Fast forward to ... asleep before I make it back to baker. Will return your genes later tonight

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  Bonfire lounge was watching Mean Girls. This seems to happen a lot lately ... . Cecilia C. ‘16 was browsing the Internet. Bianca H. ‘15 was making a pavlova ... machine for 6.01 next to a disassembled puzzle.      One floor down is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I ... . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  same reason there’s a point to making friends even if you eventually have ... mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore ... means that if you tell a friend you can’t talk to them right now, or can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020