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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  This post is way overdue, but I figure - better late than never. Here are some more updates on my travels thus far (I made it a "supersize" edition)! Michigan Sunday, September 7, 2008 9:00am. I wake up, and go

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  intelligent than I am and are still asleep. There is food at desk, as per usual ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from ... desk. When I'm not busy dropping and shattering flasks full of buffers I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . But it can be lovely, too.   When I first thought of this blog ... .   But the more I think on it, the more I realize I had no idea

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  market closed this IAP. I refreshed the web page regularly to check its ... On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  ‘09 “During IAP, I am taking 6.470, which is a web programming ... do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... Before Graduating From MIT” list. I e-mailed my sorority and asked to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the ... once. On the day of the final, I made plans with my friend Martin to meet

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  Google Pixel's Night Sight so I can see the buildings[/caption] The image ... , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts ... . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the ... At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  too tempting. Because I eat... a lot... lots of meals per day, I use the ... I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... -fresh vegetables from MIT's weekly farmer's market, I barely noticed the initial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time". I had written this list freshman spring, when I REALLY didn't have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... shark biologist (forgive me for my miseducation but I did not know we had

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ="MIT's main entrance, located on 77 Mass Ave"]Lobby 7.[/annotation] i let my ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  Dear Pass/No Record*, I’m breaking up with you. But don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt ... biology. I agree; using that metric, biology is useless. (Obviously, that ... ten hotshots per generation whose names make it into the history books

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond ... . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I drive with Mira, another pika resident, to a nearby lake. I’ve been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025