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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for ... South Station, sat down in a train bound for Philadelphia, and collapsed ... my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  , but he's definitely in the mood to look for a snack. Then you bait two ... But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain ... nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  music tastes as we waited for exposures in the tiny, dark observatory in ... passions in so many different areas that conversations could go on for hours ... 39 day summer program in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics, or

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you're writing yardlong screeds in a blog that no one reads, you probably know how ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in the 'sphere nowadays), but my recent, unintended hiatus might have ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  -law - Seen (and lived in, for a few days) my dad and stepmother's huge new ... term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if ... most days - occasionally two meals and/or no dessert - but when I'm in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we ... break and spring break, we do personal art for the first time in months of ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you’re already in college or still in high school. Even for just a ... side of the road for free water in paper cups then getting right back to ... 'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... kitchen[/annotation] until 8:50, which is around when i usually clock in for ... is remarkably unpopulated - peep the tiny city we stopped in for gas in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  movies that we have read/watched for homework. Once in class, we arrange ... There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  place for me to be, I kept thinking to myself. But, in the long run, what ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  for a new major. I had always been interested in physics, mostly ... that engineering had more in store for me than that. Because as I ... for me in the mechanical engineering department.  The idea began to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  for meeting students all over New England. In keeping with MIT”s Latin ... Boston”s annual Walk for Hunger to combat the hunger pervasive in many of ... in your studies and look out for our next program.   Alpha Kappa

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  home) by letting me in on their pass. I was unsuccessful for 10 minutes ... in love with my car, or any cars for that matter. I finally gave up on ... DID YOU KNOW? The longest recorded kiss took place in New York City

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5 ... going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is ... took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  here in time for Early Action consideration (no need to use rush reporting). We will not receive December test scores in time for Early Action ... send it again. Thanks in advance for your patience and understanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  my computer back on for the first time in weeks yesterday, and luckily ... Snapfish account when I was there for a MISTI internship in the Summer of ... in Chicago at the moment. Aww, a happy ending! (And just in time for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... my home for college. Additionally, having lived in Miami when I was ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007