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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life ... money as possible over the course of your life. There's a bunch of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  college classes because of a vague mood disorder. Bad news: The culprit was ... didn’t magically fix everything. In the fall of 2023, I quit my senior management position—the one I thought was the peak of corporate American dreams

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes ... the history of japan guy, and it is an incredible rabbit hole. cj ... me of the last class of 6.031, when it played while my professor stood

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I LOVE TATTE💖💖💖 back in boston baby

  

  know that you could only be awaiting (all of) my money to support your fine establishment. Yet I return with the greatest of news--I have ... , I run into your doors like it's the first time, ogling at your immense

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... 'll be sortof long, sorry. First, the MIT adcom perspective. I don't know ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food ... , and all sorts of other fame and admiration. The current record is only

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... miles ever before, and so I've pretty much experienced the pinnacle of bad flights - zero leg room, back row seating with the constant smell of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  spent about 3000 hours in the lab over the course of three summers, three ... 2005), holidays (in 2004, July 4 was the first holiday I took off ... . He still has to take the GRE and write a statement of purpose and all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  League of First Robotics, then you’ve taken part in a piece of MIT history. First Robotics was started by Woody Flowers, who was the first instructor of 2.007. This class is like the origin of everything engineering that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  December Events

  

  Screening: "The Name of the Disease" with introduction by Filmmakers Abhijit V ... documentary "The Name of the Disease" explores the voices of patients, shamans, doctors, and varied health officials in some of the poorest parts of rural

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  previously learned that the east side of campus has an unusually high ... how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August,” by Claire North. I’m a massive ... -3 weeks at a time, and the library has so many copies of the more popular ... means I finished 67% of the audiobooks I started, which is pretty low, but

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  them. Thanks guys, for sharing so much of yourselves over the years and ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... and the fallout kept me pretty busy for the following couple of weeks

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  microscope again, and I was going to take pictures of the lab and our equipment ... of the more senior lab members. Morgan's lab is primarily concerned ... neurotransmitter to be released. The packets of neurotransmitter travel across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... here and sean goes to harvard. the three of us talked about credit, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  I first met two years ago, one of the researchers I talked to during ... about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking ... local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is ... around. What you're looking for is "plastic" ice. The sort of stuff that ... layers of ice build up, sometimes the good stuff is buried beneath a layer

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  astronomers over cocoa. Later on, you can find out more about how the first ... by walking past it a few weeks ago (it's a bit out of the way). They ... pick up line in the comments, and if you want to see more of what is

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  made from a sort of nostalgia -- writing in the language of his land, his ... characters are humans instead of the oceans) my friend brought up a quote related to the series. It went along the lines of: the reason that it's

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  units of credit by the end of first semester, have completed 25% of your ... gets rid of the 57 unit credit limit that second semester freshmen ... Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018