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• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... . A very large, very fast-moving truck. Even so, getting screwed by 8 ... 't go away? Sudafed, Robitussin, pick one! Hey, have both! Sprained your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning about safety in the lab, since you're going to be working with glass ... long sticks that you put glass on the end of, but we'll get to the ... learned how to take the glass back off the end of the pipe when you're done

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... that I want to donate. While I work on that, go take a look at your ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center ... :Montreal (It's an inside joke, but we'll get to that) So the day we ... everyone in the car to only listen to "500 miles" by The Proclaimers for the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  what you'd like your user ID to be (you get to pick) -- keeping in mind ... mad that makes me, especially since I would really like to get my ... book too. (There used to be a website where MIT students bought and sold

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  relative to your beginning knowledge base and your overall effort within the ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual ... school? More importantly, what was your LΔ as an applicant to MIT? How did

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  school, we stressed about not being qualified enough to get into the ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... [annotation note="feel free to vent about your application

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  % worth the effort to try to get to know your roommate(s). But my freshman ... via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... those hang outs, I could feel the loneliness getting to me. A lot. The

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order ... (3) failing to reach the d-section of the alphabetized-by ... sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your

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

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , ungracefully truncated by the finite spacial limits of Google Calendar. Lulu is a ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... freshman seminar; we go to cool places like Google and MIT Open Learning and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  to party even harder after the test was over. Getting that perfect ... , I was actually surprised to find that I could get credit for them ... Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I've never had to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  compounding nature of falling apart. I try my best to get ahead at the beginning ... by the number of commitments he had. Intending to provide him some ... software, particularly websites. It's trying to cover a lot of ground and is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there ... trip to China began by crossing the border from Hong Kong into Shenzhen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  favorites below. Failure to follow directions: This one never gets old.  I ... directions is impressive, we are not actually impressed by the inability to ... : Responding to questions about cultural background by talking exclusively about

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek ... what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  retreat to your single at the end of the day to get away from socializing ... altogether. Some permit residents to customize their rooms by building lofts ... about, but were carefully curated by architects to provide a comfortable

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  abroad your junior year (and of course I would encourage any of you to ... 't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England ... -MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005