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• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring ... is at my doorstep. I should walk over it, because that's what most ... at Subway that I had on March 12th of 2005, the crumbs of which I have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... worse room than the year before. At this point everyone thought I was ... before (furniture rearrangement). Also, there is one very lousy window at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  decentralized. So, for example, if there was a professor at MIT from a particular ... to meet with representatives from Telefonica at the European Career ... Vehicles division at Telefónica I+D (I+D = Investigación y Desarollo, or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... health is a strategic national investment, and that we’re at a tipping ... health discovery to health.” She emphasized that bench research (done at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  'm sitting at my kitchen table, eating leftover baked ziti I just heated up. I ... arrive at Hunt Headquarters. Somebody give me something to do.... Friday ... !!! Saturday, 22:06 So far I've looked at ANOTHER horrendous crossword, some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  interesting or something, yeah yeah, sarcasm, she's okay at it, whatever..." and ... worked and no numbers at all to back up my assertion, but it's good enough ... , Craig, hasn't been around much at all this summer. I can't hold it against

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  perfect score. And that’s not what I mean at all. If you’re stressing over ... someone is going to look at your application and say, “Oops, well, if only ... think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... , there's an extrememly wide variety of people at MIT. Your dad's stereotype ... -- the acceptance rate for MIT kids at the top several medical schools is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... say that at chemical engineering faculty luncheons and choice of major ... --an actuary (at the time, it was rated as the #2 job in the world in terms of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  spent all that much time doing homework. I was good at cutting the corners ... challenging courseload and doing a zillion extracurriculars at once and ... would have said at the end of last semester. I still like the time

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... at the necessary temperature? And how much product would be produced ... system explode and kill everybody if you operated at that temperature

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  figure out if you really like it or not. My second term at MIT, 18.100B ... a reason. I'm not particularly good at thermodynamics, but last spring ... years after taking AP Bio, and didn't feel unprepared for them at all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  .03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how ... good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  reasons you have stayed at MIT?" Nothing too exciting, I'm afraid, for the ... am not, for the record, a star student at MIT), but I like that I am ... partially agree with you. :) The vast majority of people at MIT are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  relates back to chemistry. I promise you that I understood all of this at ... about 10 seconds to realize that it wasn't a cell phone at all- the last ... arrive at Mystery Hunt. I grabbed my camera and headed for Lobby 7, where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  assignments that you have to do yourself with a huge group project at the end ... grade. i'm having trouble with my hw so i stop by her house at night for 3 ... scale. And I would be correct, at least according to my beliefs about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  developments that await him. His height at birth was six feet, three inches, and ... girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... rest is history. I arrived late last Saturday night at East Campus, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  I enjoy painting & drawing. As the semesters passed at MIT, this ... away from this hobby. Now as I am starting my fourth year at MIT as a ... . At MIT, my aim was to maximize my experience. I told myself to expand

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  first year at MIT. So, like the first and second two times, I’m going to ... and 6PM. So we had planned on leaving at 4PM to play it safe. So before ... last run at 3:30PM. Got to the bottom of the mountain and realized I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... "middle of campus" where the most undergraduates would be at any time ... ="113004" /] Quality: ⭐⭐⭐.5 - I don't eat at Simmons that often, but I've never had

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025