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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  was the first university in the nation to be named a Heartsafe Community ... the matter is, MIT students can't be defined by any one steretype, and ... that the best thing you could do would be to come here and see what we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat apple-based meals for the next few days... or weeks. While I enjoy both

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or lack thereof) and learn more about the sisters in my sorority while

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ... of stairs in the Haus when I ran to look at the Rocko's Modern Life ... from the show on my way upstairs before I fell flat on my face. Let me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  I took a picture today that pretty well reflects the mood around this place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  :p Reasons why I was gone from the internet last semester: drowning ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  -minded people. I thought I would be surrounded by geeks and nerds all the time ... until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest ... 's administration doesn't like it if you hack the door locks or the strike plates ... . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii and Japan you will visit for sure one day Clean that clothes chair u

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  relatively empty: i also will retroactively edit the past to more ... classes. they're pretty much the only things i've been putting on my calendar for the past three years. light blue are things that are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... like the taste of coffee. I oftentimes burn myself when pouring coffee ... what I wrote towards the end of class. Something about capital mobility

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  . They also protects your devices from being overloaded in the case of a ... suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  win any prize at all, I still won't be the first (prospective) doctor to ... shred of pride. So for the time being, call me the Ken Jennings of Rock ... 7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front door. Inside, we are welcomed into the MIT community by alums ... about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  hope about the ice cream half-expected the ice cream to be at the top of ... decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough ... be grateful for every moment of existence. That’s the philosophy of the ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... experiment with illustrated formats on the blogs. On the other hand, writing is ... for fun more often, maybe I can be cool too.” Writing for fun usually

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  The blogs turn 10 and all the bloggers get e-mails saying "Write something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... ! ACTIVITY! LECTURE! WITTY! WOO!" Now?  "mow the lawn. go to work. clean stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , when the future (the one where you have to be a responsible adult and ... of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... have been savoring all the delicious home-cooked meals. Most importantly

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019