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• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  wake up and make it to class on time. So for IAP I'll be testing out new ... goals to go along with it. I'll also start small, with three goals for ... on my phone that would earn me money for watching advertisements. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  What was I looking forward to most when I arrived on campus for ... , meaning they fully expect me to hold on to this card for the next four years ... HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  500th word. Will that happen to mine? If I have a really good 505-word ... , but I guess it’s too late for that. I would definitely explain this on ... to do well, and no one minds beating their ex on an exam, but seriously

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... -class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for ... ’m okay, this is how i’m trying to sort out my thoughts. typing words on a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When ... first and to put fragile items on top. When I’m not careful about this ... groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v ... a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... . This frees me to spend Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in lab, and blog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... technicals, for a while there, I was going to every single office hour offered

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ’ for the 1st time in college, but after that i had to get on larger poles ... lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own ... ="attachment_111599" align="alignnone" width="300"] sarah and i on our way to a wallows

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  waste. Back in the Infinite on my way to Building 2 for the general Tech ... :10: Arrive at Johnson Arena, next to the Z-Center for skating practice. During ... , drops by to take some pictures for her photography class project. 10

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... promise this decision is not going to be as painful for as long as you think. It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... ! Welcome aboard! On behalf of our pilot and flight crew, I’d like to thank ... extensive use. PNR seatbelts must be kept on for the first semester. Also

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  - sunburn thing gone sailing for the first time (sailing and learning to sail at mit is free to the mit community!) fallen into the charles ... , massachusetts for homemade ice cream and a late-night visit to mit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to ... , catching up on the sleep that seems to hide during the term. :-) I've been

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod ... part of the creation (you also pour a little water on the neckline for ... ON MY FIRST TRY AND THEN I MESSED UP :( My cup was going to be

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT, and sometimes go to trivia together, and eat each other's nachos: my ... to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of ... movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... ’ll be next to these friends, if i choose this company i’ll work on these

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell ... project I've been working on for the past year is my baby, and I've done all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  Cambridge, to meet some friends for breakfast...only to run into them walking to campus on my way there. And thus began the second of the dreariest ... -The-Right-Thing (the jury's still out on that one, for the record, or at least I think it

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008