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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  ventured outside behind Baker House, only to get knocked over by the blizzard ... 't seen much snow until coming to MIT. Nemo is by far the most amount of ... lightheated... And then people went for it. By 5pm we were able to catch

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  so what if we did? There are worse things to be. But anyway, MIT is ... , and we're proud of to be a little offbeat. Around here, "nerd" isn't an ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  still require you to submit the application by the normal deadline, which ... will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear Report: I know that ... about this unless you are deferred from EA to RA. This form will not be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry ... year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... is that it's really too cold to go outside and play for any significant

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  own learning. The way that I learn best is by actually doing things ... classes is that in an environment where you're supposed to be learning ... disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write embarassing things about them, I do respect their privacy, so names will not be

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  be optomistic); it didn't work for me. This is in no way trying to ... GIRs can be a nice way to explore subjects before committing to a major ... I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  air conditioner I like. To be honest, I only know about window AC units -- and ours had to be "custom configured" by Adam since Macgregor has ... OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  science/engineering is one of the most effective ways to help the world! By ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... 'm worried that by pursuing a science/engineering career, I won't be helping

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  things to be the same. It's a lesson I'm still learning the hard way, as I ... [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... really found a way to coherently put those thoughts to paper. But on this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  I don't mean to say that MIT is decreasing my ability to be creative ... ideas could be anything: sharpening a t-cell to pierce cancer cells, using ... in high school and middle school. Ideas seem to be dead on arrival

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  hospital. But I’m just an undergrad, so what do I know"]“there’d be no way to ... post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... affordable) way to relieve some of the stress MIT can give. And trust me, there ... form characters and worlds and stories in my head that have yet to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being ... like to explain things. No one likes to accept the "it's just the way it ... supposed to be here? Was I going to be the laughing stock of the Institute

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... thought to be two safe backup options: unpaid laborer on an organic farm in ... to, nobody wanted to interview me. Internally, I knew I’d find some way

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  you are probably thinking that it’s way too early to be thinking about ... onto this blog, though. I don’t want to be *that* kind of college blogger ... ’ve faced”: Failing the last competitive math test of my career (to be fair

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not ... “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  this in the most honest, sincere way possible. I'm not trying to be rude ... Computer Aided Manufacturing. The way the whole process works is to design a ... . (By the way, most CNC machines, except for the "super heavy duty" ones I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... ’ve had a lot of successes (at least judging by how quickly my cookies

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... being able to share my perspective.  While I frequently have opportunities ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011