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• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  the neighborhoods here are really pretty!” “But the weather is so bad today!” “What do you mean?” “Because there’s no sun; the sky is gray. It ... miserable.   What is actually miserable? Certainly not Cambridge

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  '?] “Whatever -- anywhere the wind blows is cool” In other news: one of the ... the name sounding really fun, the dish is made of two beef patties over ... the island, Waimea. The ride is a little over an hour and scaled around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  fined $25 for not doing our cleaning duties, and the serious shame of ... . Pictured above is the route I took to work: the Harvard bridge, past building ... is actually run by a bunch of zombies. Since the original plan of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  couple things: not picking my clothes up off the floor (no roommate, no mom ... breakfast place in our service area is closed, and the roads are too blocked ... , and so I feel this is a fortuitous day - but when I get to the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging ... been told that tea is not very caffeinated. It took me an embarrassingly ... cook is to add things until you feel the universe screaming at you to

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

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  is good. It deserves fuel. It does not deserve the extremes of poor ... given advice can be digested by the recipient regardless of whether or not ... life is [annotation note="trial and error is the best way to learn and I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it. So now the old laptop is living at home with my seventeen-year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson ... the year.   Seminar advising. A freshman seminar is a ... -- professors are great with the life advice and all, but sometimes they're not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  lots) of mail. (The Wall Street Journal today is reporting that our early ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... you have been checking the Application Tracking System on MyMIT, and may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  team which is also ATO. And finally, the 2005-2006 MIT cheerleading ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... the long run, I know it's not only necessary but definitely worth it ... Skullhouse. As for Junk? Well, most of it is headed for the trash can. I don

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully ... , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really ... 't have to rub it in.) The bottom line is, don't be afraid to reveal what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  a GIR) Oh, physics. This is probably the class I’m least looking ... happy that this class is not graded on a curve, which means what I give is ... . Which means! That 4.111 is the first studio in a sequence of studios I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line ... . Below is a list of ten of the best spaces for both of these activities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... and broke two bones in my wrist, and I would not even put that among the ... engineer. But all that was not even the nightmare. So I was walking around

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... alone, and we think that is great. You do not need to submit a portfolio ... media in a way that our standard application is not. And while your Slide

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  twice as many.  things which surprised me the commute is not ... out to be totally true the buildings have names, not numbers, and the ... ="I was too focused on not saying a number that I forgot this is Harvard

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would ... 've been TAing this IAP) is tomorrow evening, and I am excited. The teams ... the snow is COLD!" and amusing everyone else. I remember my first winter

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  at MIT. The way it works is, there are a few dorms with dining halls. I ... hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these ... dining hall dorms...you can probably see the conflict). Not in an FSILG

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  so far. Technically it's a grad class, and yeah the class is about half ... not surprisingly, I was assigned to the learning group. :) Each group ... fares. (those red boxes show where on the platform the camera is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007