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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like, here is my schedule: (NO 9 A.M. CLASSES HEHE) Every weekday, I start ... here under Pass/No Record because I have not taken a biology class since

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a ... A few weeks ago, I organized a 140+ person barbecue for the many ... of 1968. East Campus has a lot of history, and my floor Tetazoo is no

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for that! If you like playing Starcraft, there's a club for that! If you enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, there's a team for that! I can pretty much

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  company B do when a piece of legislation was passed?). This is my first ... As we’ve already seen, tests can really throw a curveball into one ... schedule out there. Tests introduce a whole new variable in time management

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road ... fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the ... Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... for me. A marathon has 26 miles. Half a year has 26 weeks. Coincidence ... competition they have in this category, but a winner is a winner. The store

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  that I don't contact them for a longer time and they proposed to do some ... . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... Muslim students and staff would gather under the roof of a building

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  was so happy - now I am officially a nationally certified firefighter ... have been having a lot of problems with sleeping lately, where it takes ... , there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  2 MIT alums (including a former blogger) for a week on the west coast ... edition. Thankfully, a lot of the more famous things about San Francisco lend themselves really nicely to outbursts of nerdiness. Exhibit A: the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  a certain buoyancy into my steps which match my momentary lightness of ... expect them, but when they do occur, they do feel motivated. Of course I ... feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  airport, I wasn't able to call an Uber as I usually do, so I got on a taxi ... It's been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving ... Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  . He wanted to do a video call with me, so we did. We talked about what ... [Once, on [annotation note="a Philippine highway ... may go] Harvard and MIT hold a math competition for high schoolers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... understood football, though I do feel connected to the town. I watched a ... . How do you call the police and tell them about a crime that you didn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  we started talking about building a web app to do these calculations ... closely. of course, that was back when i was a prefrosh and didn't know him ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... took a short stories class in junior year. A lot of the time I used to ... 've been working on a novel [annotation note="Don't ask me how much I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics. He is from Dallas, Texas, and is Ethiopian-American. He's a Radio DJ

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  The pre-Spring break week is always a nightmare; a friend summed it ...   and laughing at a bizarre article about the "craziest items seized by ... friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013