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• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  ...for a little trip down memory lane. What inspired this sudden ... television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... ) … and reminisced a whole lot -- and then OH-MY-FRICKEN-G’ – I know all the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... memories of an emportant emotional experience, a phenomenon called "flashbulb

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  - send me a picture of something cool you did/are doing this summer, and I ... know that, she, in fact, also just climbed a mountain (at 2000 meters - compared to that, Twin Peaks is merely a foothill!) Polish mountains are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What now suckas!? That's right. I have a brass rat. What.

  

  WAAAAAAY a long time ago, Chris blogged about Ring Premiere. We ... have had to wait patiently, doing PSETS, taking tests, and generally ... night on May 8th. I think I speak for a lot of us when I say that was a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  -covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction ... while being shoved around by fifty (50) drunk hipsters at a Black Lips ... this morning and my right hip was bothering me a lot - it's been a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea ... -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a quick exit interview with my professor - and that's it. Done. A beautiful

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  a test (it's pretty funny if you're not one of the kids) I could do ... was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... deliver the presentation in Kresge Auditorium. No, your eyes do not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  _hidden]2. Write—something—once a week. Drink tea while you do it. Feel that ... hours of sleep. Write—something—once a week. Drink tea while you do it ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  /approachable instead of offering a blunt "What do you want" (or the even more common ... dining halls because they use the liquid eggs only), and sometimes do a ... people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  a distress email, I'm certainly honored, but please do contact your ... to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet ... like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... the metropolitan areas involved vary. Metro Manila is a well ... tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So ... high of being a new student, and I’m starting to learn what I need to do ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  , this is easier to do when you aren't rushing to submit an essay before a ... Not every writer is an artist. Not every piece of writing is a work of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long ... will cover a couple different trips over the past few months. And since ... a special added bonus, I have also included the diary of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011