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• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  rollerbladed to the train station. (Incidentally, rollerblades and trains are not ... tell me what the bug in the upper right corner is (and how much of a bad ... world where I’m not absorbed in every hour of the day; I’m glad that come

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  electronics is still the limiting factor on our data acquisition. Speaking of ... room. I was late. The problem set's not due til next week. Nobody came ... high way. But this was the end of my day and not the beginning. I was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... means psets, a midterm, a final, and daily lectures. The pace is ... ."]Greek[/annotation]dough balls soaked in honey. MMmmmm glucose 😋 Beginners' ASL is one of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  ), consensus is not easy. I think living in the dorm fostered a certain sense of ... Cambridge is very expensive, with studio apartment rates near MIT in the ... 's not necessarily in the most convenient lot. Some people try bringing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , and having the majority of your time be consumed by one person is not ... The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... the reasoning behind it is crucial. as Nisha mentioned in her blog

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is ... campus tours, the sun is shining beautifully, the steps of the Student ... the northeast side of campus for a not-so-secret meeting with several

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... sucked into the molasses and it was liek sweet quicsand! mmmmm! but not mmm ... , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  of great questions about the partnership—questions like: “What is STARS ... the screen, college fairs are not meant to be stressful. They’re meant for learning. You’re not being judged by the admissions officers based

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  here is the desert[/caption] This burn, however, did not go away. It ... three weeks. The scar is disappointingly not that gory any more. ... myself did not make anything better, and the next day I woke up with an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Project Lab, this is the Biology Major's rite of passage at MIT. It is ... units, but it's the way it is because when you sign up for Project Lab ... joke in the biology labs is that the reason it takes an extra 1-2 years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  and randomly attended the same alumni event.  We joke that we would not ... , I’ve found that timing is everything.  Being in the right place, at the right time, when someone specifically needs you.  There is no other

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  . Being a junior, I know that living through MIT is not much like the ideal ... not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to ... have been feeling since the semester started is something like

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  not the charger. More emails with Baker Desk made it clear that the ... not prepared. I'm also one of the online logistics subdirectors and we ... couldn't find any motivation. All I want to do right now is lie down. Not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I ... interesting, just not as interesting (apparently) as the delightfully sublime ... Wars: Return of the Jedi, not only started at 9 AM every single day but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty ... point. I’m not just showing off all the cool stuff I got from orientation ... of a process than an event; sure, the main goal is to get the frosh

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  People always told me sophomore fall is the worst semester you ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  their made out of is a cool party trick (at least at the parties I go to ... interested in GDP and what not with all the talk about China and the recession ... development The winner of "wrong category" award, this writing class (what?) is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... , you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the ... only has space for 5 activities! This is not a coincidence… I’ve known so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  , amp and all, to annoy the neighbors that you now have because you’re not ... ’s becoming pretty clear that Maine is the backdrop for whatever story you’re carving out, but not the “Maine” you decided to leave. The Maine that

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  , which is itself in parallel with the two marshmallows and the other ... 'm not sure if I want the real-life version of this circuit inside anything ... '12, not to be outdone, responded to the above by building a “short

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009