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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... bizarre half-conscious state. Events unfolded at about ten times normal ... !" At the same time, I dreamed that I was running through a series of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... cook. At midnight, cookies or muffins or pretzels or cake will magically ... ? Understandable. Let's start with that kid over there - the one at the dining table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... sooner ("just tell me the decision ALREADY!"). But more on this at the bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  that when there are more pressing issues at hand- like the fact that ... a great success rate this year: Jane Doe: accepted at the School of Science, John Smith: accepted at the School of Engineering, Someone Else

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  gang!" Anyway, one part is true- I did save a life. At least, I hope I saved a life. That would make the story a whole lot better... At 12:30 PM ... bag of chocolate chip cookies and stay conscious at the same time. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  people never learn."]take 5 classes again at MIT,[/annotation] I clearly ... so much. During that bumpy ride, and the previous 4 rides I had had at ... humanities major of some sort. I’ve been sad that at MIT I haven’t dabbled in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  note="pass/incomplete/no record"]PENE[/annotation] at home to working 40 hours a week at an apartment with my friends. So...I don't take these ... living with my friends than living at home. I'm not lonely at all, for one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... about living at Maseeh. More neutral facts, like the fact that Maseeh ... at night because you have stayed up so late past dinner, your stomach

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little ... sharpener, also from Max. Paint I got on my desk while painting my room at ... indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... those crazy intimidating MIT students. I guess what I'm getting at here is ... before even showing up at MIT. (This was well before being an admissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three hours behind Washington, where I work). I'd get breakfast at around 7 or 8 while staring at code. I'd eat lunch at around 12. Nap from 2-3. Take the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  ’ve moved at pretty much every critical point in my life (before elementary ... friends seemed like a nearly impossible concept. At the beginning of FPOP ... talked to Kat, who is now my big, and immediately felt at home. She was so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  question, just to ensure that all of me, or at least nearly all of me would ... program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) nonprofit organization - ??? equality in STEM and social justice - Essay #3: At MIT, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  're doing this)[/caption]   [11:40am] The event technically starts at ... Stata, at least from the front (don't look at the back of the structure). It was also fun (and chaotic) when more people started showing up at

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  that felt has difficult for me at MIT before is that I'm not very ... at MIT, but usually isn't the focus of the Course 7 classes I've taken ... Engineering I didn't do research at all last year, since I spent my sophomore

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  , digitized attempts at recreating our chaotic in-person lunchroom banter. Daylight would fade around 4 PM (perhaps the worst aspect of living at the ... my routine feels well-worn at this point, the job never seems to get

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  can bite.  Competitive at a National Level And while the NEWMAC demonstrates success at a regional scale, you might be thinking: Surely there is not this much success at a national level, too?  WRONG!  The limits of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  despaired at the possibility that I lacked the intrinsic motivation that ... invented at MIT by Gerry Sussman and Guy Steele, was first described in a ... LED strips when seen directly. But this was soft and warm! At first I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  MIT Mystery Hunt sits atop the calendar at just a whole other scale ... the writing team in 2014), I still haven't taken a crack at writing any ... Francisco for 6 years, Hunt was the temporal landmark which anchored at least

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025