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• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... worthwhile activities a student might do. While many MIT students have ... through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  sleep, eating many yummy things, and completed a 3000 piece puzzle. (sadly ... one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more ... dot Oakland Chinatown. After work, it's MCAT class for 3 times a week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... , some background. A scaffold protein, as the name suggests, is a protein whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  -of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a tradition at my company, see: every time someone has a birthday, an anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• 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 every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first ... project some more → Go on a voice call → Play a video game → Get breakfast ... , text me where" → Go to recitation → Start a new blog post Go on a voice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been ... . I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk about this on a blogpost, but I know ... pretty rough memories. I was already stressed out by my 6.009 quiz, a quiz

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even ... Things I Love About MIT (or at least it would be, if such a list actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the fetus version of a full-fledged Tamagotchi—it was capable of walking

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a day trip down to Montreux, Switzerland. I AM SO HAPPY. I've been a ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  While you guys are waiting for decisions to be released, here's a ... classroom. No doubt you've heard about it, as it is getting a lot of press ... am taking a risk, because this thread CAN'T devolve into a left versus

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  captioning every image... this takes a shockingly long time, would not recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  prestigious MIT PE programs, you might be aware of something called a Pirate ... actually says GPRs.), but also I took a SCUBA class. I'm like an advanced ... won't be miserable like a senior taking 7.012. You might even enjoy it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that my life will be a little easier. EER- Emergency Exit Row FR- Front

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in ... photos from some of the early birds (well, night owls), take a look! And

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  and upperclassmen pick freshmen). Anyway. This afternoon, I needed a ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October, and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... , started designing a show-and-tell style fashion class. Drawn in by peer ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022