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• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ... my original bus to Kyoto, and despite the motto I'm currently trying to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  be helpful to the freshmen in my wing. I’m supposed to be a go-to for ... . Learning the worm is the best way to spend 1.5 hours ever. I’m probably not ... . Time used to be so leaden, with the brutal impassivity of cold marble. It’s so

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not ... tagged along because why not? The entire experience was punctuated by the ... homework, I obliged with a final exam. One of the most surprising things to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  the wind will blow through it, not billow up behind. It is colorfast and ... also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... 2000 (I missed the lecture). Not too long afterward, Adams passed away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I ... scrapple. Strangely enough, I did develop a slight revulsion to the foods ... 't remember why I liked the teriyaki chicken so much. I usually only take lunch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA Dynamics in the Tiny Bacterial Cell, in the Fall. - we toured the Broad ... So over the past couple of days, our FPOP has done some pretty cool

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... jackets.  So the biggest reason why I've become such a sucker for fall? I ... have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  World Tour per se, but I will be hitting the metropolitan New York City ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  in Maseeh. Note: This is not meant to be the definitive guide to ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or ... work on GIR psets together, Maseeh is the place to be. Here is the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  ) If somebody replies, wait patiently for them to be done using the ... polite and everybody gets along alright. You may not be used to having to ... for all the dorm bathrooms (which I'll leave to blog readers to describe

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Canceled? HOW COULD THEY!?!?!?!

  

  MIT gives students the month of January off, it's something they call the "Independent Activities Period," or IAP. Turns out, due to budget ... , this is a hacked website. IAP will be proceeding as planned, psych

  • by Snively '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  you would like to leave and return we will be taking shelter in the ... me away from the Boston Pops, but YOU WILL NOT WIN COPPERS! NEVER! The ... be able to hear the music too, we could hear the sound checks this

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  be a GAME.  Do I create a game to play with the cards like with ... downloads the video, feel free to do this...or not. haha I watched students ... the chaos to tell me it was an amazing idea and we will definitely do it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study ... breaking abilities. But now I know. =) I first learned to appreciate the ... move on to the next. I took one look at the question and just burst out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  ’s going to be here over the next few days for CPW, I can promise you that ... experiences! Elizabeth K. '14 Don’t stress over not being able to do everything ... dorms and get tours (this will be much better than trying to figure out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the ... is supposed to be fun; don't let the application get you even before ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  beautiful spring and fall days, and all will be well in the world until your ... being kidnapped, as well. Good thing I'm not having kids). 8. This is the ... . But I really wanted to use the word "divulge," so I'm not changing it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  't need to be writing about your 4.0 GPA, your cure for the common cold, or ... becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold, courageous students need not apply. Last night, after the requisite parties

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  Nerdy on YouTube, or maybe you'll be just sitting around the table with ... those are kind of cool, they end up not knowing anything about the fine ... AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006