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• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I have the rare ability to set even water on fire. Thankfully, some of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  ! - recommended: right-click+save as on the link to download the file and listen on ... students at MIT have, I chose for myself to continue playing piano. I think ... at MIT for performance. Because of this, I've been able to realize my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  pumps. But for now, she simply had to focus on where it needed to be ... have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... the clothes to wear for the day and the judgment calls his neighbor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... 've stayed up until five am for most of the past week, working on construction ... realization or stunning insight that i've come to a conclusion on. instead, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes, okay, it's true that you can just show up on the first day for any class ... too high for me to muster. Don't you forget to enter it either, Class of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  on my bs and set the bar high for what I should aspire to be- the ones ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to ... -sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... , hanging out on campus, talking about my MIT experience, or reacting to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . We evaluate everything based on the US system. For example, students ... . One of the questions on the app. asks, "What do you do for fun?" and gives three lines for a response. I job shadow a Pediatrician on a regular

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... , perfectly sets the tone for the frenetic visuals that are to come.   ... , before she even knew she'd be able to use the R&D pub. for the first

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  us on this blog. Marilee, Stu, I, and the other guests hope to each write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on ... the privilege to be an admissions officer for nearly ten years at three

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  to come to Caius College for a formal next week. So stay tune. I ... First off a few notes of clarification. CME stands for Cambridge ... . They are the people that started CME and have been funding it for the

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on ... at MIT but is expected to be learned on the job. She loved her

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  Elementary discrete mathematics for science and engineering, with a focus on ... productive in OHs for some reason. 18.06 - Linear Algebra Basic subject on ... for me to plow through because I have to get used to the sheer amount of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at ... fun thing to do is go chairing down the tunnels! Cook for yourself for ... for my friends to use, and they'd later feed me with whatever I provided

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  on this post to focus the conversations on the open threads for ... weeks ago, our dedicated staff has worked tirelessly for weeks to ensure ... recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the ... for. A perfect farewell to summer.             Kudos if you can

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  an MP3 player program on it and started taking requests for shower ... suite, but the 30-second walk down the hall was a small price to pay for ... so hot that Mike '09, looking on, had to break out the Ben & Jerry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how ... good for me!) and feeling in my bones that this life is a good place to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention ... Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to ... stomachs and no desire to return to IHOP for infinite pancakes anytime soon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015