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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  hanging out with your classmates. you go to classes with them, work on ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people you're friends with, because you're on campus, and all the undergrads

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees ... one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  thought as tightly as I can." Kim D: "I'm on the 6th draft of my MEng ... all night on this sort of thing because I won't have any finals this ... . But it may be the MIT students who have it toughest of all: it is finals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  appeared on the 2005 Advanced Placement English Language and Composition test, in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of satire." Ling '07 had two of her MIT friends over this weekend and we went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of ... postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... 9.15 (Biochemistry/Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission), a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  groups had already gone on to the pond. And none of us really knew the way ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  die instantly. So, it's better to err on the side of caution here. And ... the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to ... the largest labs on campus, encompassing various fields of research from ... protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  out of the way without your 'bad' grades showing up on your transcript ... , super important in engineering! (On a side note, I passed out of 8 ... Class of '10: getting super ready and excited for school? I hope you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my ... . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... , occasionally, on NPR blaring through a $6 radio. At MIT, the pace of life is much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  catching up on a lot of science fiction shows that I've been saving up during ... of episode 1 is all you need to be hooked on. Trailer: https ... (on ep7 of s2) Concepts/Themes: Reality, Life, Death, Dreams, Greek

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects, the last round of psets, and other hecticness. By the end of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in ... from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a ... savory parts of my memory, I can recall those nights of crying to my mom on ... only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  . 2. 2. Record-Breaking: On the right of our suite-board you will see a ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012