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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  post. 1: I got pushed off the MIT Admissions front page. If you obsessively (or even just sporadically) read the blogs, then you probably know ... training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down ... crisis, I guess. Fearful I would be late for the rafting trip's departure ... minutes late. Even more luckily, he turned out to be among the top twenty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  food, of course, being one of the hardest things for this transplanted ... trucks aren't on the card, but they should be. I treat myself to the Asian ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  the best parts about being a member of SaveTFP is just seeing the number ... , which made me very happy!!!   4) Being literally in the middle of a ... the more imminently I should be heading to bed, the less likely I am to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... at MIT take this class. The textbook is fascinating; it's something I would actually read for pleasure as well as work. The material is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  the numbers around how money at MIT works can be found in the recently ... difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  this book to be on par with or even slightly better than the EK orgo book ... I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It's been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  As the NY Times article states, this whole blogging thing "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook ... 't get IAP off), I will organize my entry more than I ever have before

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) (complaining about the ratio of male to ... still have mine: During the same week, my friend Daniel (who was a ... home the night before my first J-Lab oral exam and found a sweet note on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... being halfway through your degree. And it's also been a hot topic to blog

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  passed my EMT class during IAP, and then the state practical exam last week.  All that is left is the national exam, which I am taking within the next ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... homemade Jedi costumes for Halloween our junior year. Wes once shot the guy in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  and sandwich shops during the semester. I always thought I wanted be on ... graduate, but a lot of your interests can be reflected in the classes you ... ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  . Here's the result:  Let's be clear. Before going into this project, I ... of real-life things. Being on the Design/Build/Fly team gets me access ... It's snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015