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• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... Florida teaching L'Hopital's Rule to confused high school juniors and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  to process the fact that I'm living through a pandemic. I've expressed by dismay to many people. I tell them "Yeah I feel like it's been such ... time like this? I was only really able to process everything and anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead, I wrote back, dude hang on I'm totally going to blog about this, and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

   real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest ... for me. i woke up to grey skies and decided to go back to bed for another two hours. once i finally mustered up the willpower to get up, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  : lived in. The hallways of MIT are alive. From well before 9:00 am to well ... [annotation note="MIT’s main entrance to the academic part of campus"]Lobby 7 ... to them before, but sometimes I’ll see someone else talking, and they

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ), and Borderline (murals) are easy ways to meet other people interested in making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the ... might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  pledged to et this semester, which means i'm a house member now. i still live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... promys, this math summer camp i went to in high school. it reminds me of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  happen is they say no, which is the same result as if you never ask" to be ... , so the costs are different. If I were to ask someone out now, maybe it is true that I'm exposing myself to much less risk these days. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed of raccoons called MIT students.  As fallen leaves start to blanket

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

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn down, and that we still exist! I first moved to WILG after I took a gap year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  . Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid"]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... carpet to match with my roommate, which in hindsight was not the best

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were so many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some truly great

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021