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• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... concern I hear a lot from people who are not MIT students is "Oh no, if they ... deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Police, who brought in a bunch of flags (USA, Massachusetts, MIT) and ... . Next came the big procession with a LOT of people in academic robes. This ... Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, etc. Quite a showing

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... human interactions in the built environment and data as a change agent. By ... all the buzzwords. On the other hand, I think I got a lot out of this

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs, especially when the blogs have been such a cozy, homey place for me, a respite ... one year left. I found out I have ADHD? But I guess a lot of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  this is a guest blog post from my dear friend aidan chambers '23 who ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... a urop,[annotation note="lab assistant, aka office hours staff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... the biggest change from being a full-time student to being a full-time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a conservative, simple choice is usually better. the central ramen (shoyu) is a good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  the first Festival here. This post is the second of a series of three ... . This post is just a fraction of the fascinating information I absorbed at ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Last week, high school counselors from across the country came to a conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal ... one of which will comprise my thesis and the next year and a half of my ... may or may not be able to read without being on a college wifi network

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A ... workshops, unmoderated talks, a Concert of the Internet (ft. Group X, Lemon

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a ... got there after what should have been little more than a 5 minute walk I

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry, which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street to do a book signing in December

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Foundries. It's also a (heavily subsidized) ski trip! Because MARC isn't only ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to ... English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them. emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my posts. I made a Spotify playlist if you want to listen to them all: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wP6Lb5qZ0B9NXAjwsFYyl?si=2c079440422a4f32 I've had to make some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023