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• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  everything I wanted to be, but everything I wished I could find around me as I ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... arrived at MIT with the raw materials I needed to be an adult -- maturity

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  drowning. If drowning seems plausible, an individual can opt to take an ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  throughout the greater Zürich area. I got really lucky to be placed in one just ... great semester, and to Floor 1 for being the best floor too! https://youtu.be ... abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  really challenged in a completely different way (excited to be scared ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  , burdened as they may be by a brobdingnagian backpack. See, sometimes, what ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... by semester two (or once you become a sophomore the regular way), that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  odds being: 1/12+1/6(1/12+1/6(1/12+......)) all the way to infinity ... Mattress Dominoes turn into "Oh Noes!"? Luckily the trend appears to be that ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au ... questions - remember, the only way out is to THINK your way out. Enough said ... then I've held several positions, all related in some way to minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  , "MIT is only as hard as you want it to be" was true. In other ways, it ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time ... uninterrupted study time. By the way, I'm not a double major anymore. More on that in a later post. Also, I didn't want my experience this week to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... ,000 quarters. Good start! Still going strong! Still a LOOOOOONG way to go!I gave ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to ... find ways to take care of yourself and ease the stress, whatever that ... i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  totally unbearable. And now he doesn't always act the way he wants to act, because he wants to be recognized in the way he's used to being recognized ... , and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  will be honored by speakers, recognized by faculty, and handed a well ... distinct meanings: to be made callous and indifferent, or to become sturdy ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  the specific ways that I did them. It's the easiest section to write ... discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth ... flash forward to present day: I couldn’t be any happier with my choice to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  quick lunch, then come back here to soak up the internet. And be lazy ... together, and we're getting to know each other pretty well by now) and catch ... answer a bunch of questions later today. For right now, I just want to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  this by bribing us with things we would otherwise not be able to afford ... circuit) tape out before the deadline which just so happened to be the first ... ) (+Dohyun)”. While Andi seemed to be diligently take notes on the panel

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  admitted students can enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to ... to get emails and screennames to be in touch with fellow MIT 2014s ... to make your decision (and if we can help, please let us know), but be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it ... mirror off of somebody's car on the way down. Still, he was determined to ... Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  January 6, I will be flown out to Paris along with 7 other MIT students ... 've been writing to since my freshman year in high school will be taking a ... my D-Lab (an intro to Development) Team. We'll be working with NGOs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007