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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . After yoga, I decided to go running for half an hour, which was of course ... Rickman's velvety voice, but I still wanted to stick around for the ... escorted the lovely and incomparable Mitra to a dinner for Tau Beta Pi, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  before realizing that it was literally impossible for me to solve it on my ...  interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... have no idea.” And I told her I’d think on it for a little bit before

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... quadrotors to down an elephant. Swag, lots of swag. If my collection of free

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for ... refer to as Poor People Money (PPM), to spend on groceries at locations ... room on the verge of passing out, I feel sort of free. Maybe one day in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  to MIT. Although I came here for tech and tinkering, between the rock ... to new things is fun though. When the year goes on and I become ... college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip side, that also means it is harder to find people to ask for help ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking ... , MIT makes it quite easy to cross-register for up to two classes at ... cross-registered for two classes: one on Irish folklore, the other a

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

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... regrets of mine I try not to think about. But I hope I can put that all to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to ... asphalt resulting from the free fall of an upright piano. Determined to be ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... Disneyland. Precious free time went to a pool trip, or exploring the on ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  on my resume and not the PhD. While this sounds loony, I've talked to a ... While Mollie has pretty much sent off all her applications for graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... ". . . free for the night, what do you want . . . " Things are a little

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... point of being someone i don't want to be, if that makes sense? for ... elaborate on the answer after i've given it. it's just that i'm not going to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  's for 29 hours per day and then lied about it on my blog. (*I plan to ... Gave It Back to Me on Tuesday)”. You guessed it: MIT just dumped its ... swift hours, you're blissfully free to cruise along, guarded from the edge

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , mechanical pencils, and glitter fairy stickers to put on my problem sets. I ... feels a little like this right now (mouse over): I’m trying to take on ... class is a prerequisite for almost everything else I want to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... ="x = any integer from 1-24, not to be mistaken for the ChemE Bunker ... a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  my norm. From the hackers of East Campus to the frat brothers on the ... every once in awhile. So I would like to thank everyone at MIT for making ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  free time the average MIT student has (ha), so I decided to be like that ... routine for the past 7 years, and I'm not about to stop now. (Although ... actual event, I might as well try to take a different angle on it (i.e. Sam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy-to ... bins to stock up on grains and nuts. Around Boston Haymarket Location: 96

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016