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• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  kitchen, I decided that I hadn't roller bladed in a while and I missed it ... is it? Guess in the comments. VII -- I finally got a new hard drive ... because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  over a month in advance, as they do every year. So some very quick workarounds had to be made. There is still a structure that rolls and coasts ... -go-round is bigger and more solid than last year's.   There is a see-saw that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May ... took a lighter academic load, two classes, so that I could work an ... mortgage. Planting a sapling in the front yard. I’ve realized I like the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  cram. "Work isn't like that. I don't know when I can take a break, or ... . Today, I was supposed to do more work, but I lost track of time reading A ... whole days. That felt like a lot of time. But in the grand scheme of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  is as a Bond girl with Carter '07. Now that I think of it, I can ... cruise was actually the most fun party-type event that I have attended in a ... thing I love about MIT is that 90% of the student body has no idea how to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  time in over a year that I have been able to sing with people, in person ... , but that its loss is hardly a disaster. down. In the past month, there ... midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... . He also, I found out, is a recitation instructor for 8.286 - The Early ... Challenge. The high school I'm working at is 100% Navajo, and has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College ... I had not the greatest week, but tune in tomorrow for my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  doing with your life how dare i whine that i am hosed when I came this far to drink? how dare I complain about thirst when a sea of knowledge ... diligence Look how far you’ve fallen You, a victim of time and circumstance I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... an affection that startles me). I guess I should backtrack a little ... 9-to-5 that I couldn’t quite put a finger on until my first day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... rest of the mice. Hmm, what else... one day I was doing a DNA extraction

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... . Need blind means that we do not consider how much financial aid we would need to give a student during the admissions process. What we do is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... that was totally unexpected. Throughout high school, I hadn't put much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... prep courses are helpful in that you have a structured environment that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  : "That is an interesting question. "First, I believe in managing ... how fair the interviewer is, first impressions do make a difference. The ... ring i could always take out but my hair?   That's a good question

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  doing nothing else. But of course that's never how it works. Last weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... Challenge is an event that is usually for people interested in becoming SIPB

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  that is no longer accessible. When I think of this place in space and ... 2008 that I genuinely learned how to be a person. Where I learned how to ... tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save ... , a undergraduate organization that shows second-run movies in stereo ... was no TKD, though. Nightmarket is fantastic. For two dollars, I got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005