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• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I ... just to get into Boston. I feel kind of dumb now thinking that my moment ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  lots of things. 5. Electronics  Look into whether your chargers and ... -exhaustive list of things you should remember to do this summer. Hopefully, this ... signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule ... doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited ... , classes are settling into a rhythm, the pumpkin takeover is underway, and I ... clubs and responsibilities so that I have the energy to dip my toes into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  into their stream of consciousness. (This is maybe the first book I ... probably be higher if I felt capable of Actually Understanding Poetry, but I ... letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year might usually have. There's still something about the turn of the year and the impending end of the semester, though, that demands one gently

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have ... if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... into the wee hours of the night. We had a 4-day weekend in mid

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  to hopefully catch these blogs up to my current life, but instead of ... classes before this semester were a mix of[annotation note ... [annotation note="Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems"]20.110[/annotation]. This

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  another helping of rice and curry. I ran into Ali, a postdoc that I’ve been ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  want out of this world. I’m getting back into[annotation note ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... ’ve grown a quarter of an inch in a week. (Or, like, some unmeasurable non

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and music tech! My physics class continues into IAP (more on that later). It

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... managed to progress beyond the group stage and into the knockout round ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... family because we hadn't yet been able to move into our new home. My world ... comprehensible place, had suddenly exploded into almost unintelligible complexity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of ... dropped stray documents into folders. I also moved folders into other folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  into a study break of dubious productivity. And I... Gave people ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... moosh made of it now blah. (Editor's note: my spell-checker just insisted

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

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain ... : Well, I guess I might have to look into a new computer. I'll hear back from them about the status of my computer tomorrow, but if it costs more

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  . The roughly 50 students in the class are divided into cohorts of 9, and ... interest usually fizzles out into indifference somewhere not too deep into ... cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008