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• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  crystallizing a core I'll hold on to forever, so that in four years I will reach ... ’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have ... past year I’d achieved a consistent workout routine and diet that lent

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  ! Sadly, Ash and I were both in such a food coma that we were unable to ... out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... suggested that I do seven things to commemorate this fortuitous day. "Like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share ... . Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... her Secret Santa gift. Anyway, all of that is a really long way of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... you've figured out what you need to do in order to get that amount of ... they complain, I like to give them a blank look, as though the concept is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather ... is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... recuperating. And I did that, too, in the first couple weeks: slept twelve hours ... 's over"). I can't overstate how wonderful it was -- like a third way of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  faculty. Perhaps this is partly a by-product of the fact that I now spend ... relationships with professors, something that is much harder to do in the larger ... is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... ...which is partly why I'm writing this. So people don't forget how lovely of a ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... - I really do mean it. A case in point: last semester, Melis and I ended ... ) class participation. If that sounds like a lot, in some respects I guess

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... : I'm taking 14.41 this term Professor: Oh, is that PF? Student: No, I ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  ’t that bad, but I’ve never been in a severe snowstorm in such a big city ... cheesy goofball that I am and walk to class.   *(fantabulous is not a ... credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  discovered is that a combination of hearing protection and iPod headphones ... pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... straight from the bus into the range, which is, unlike ours, housed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  others in a way that I didn't realize I could: I'm a pretty introverted ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn ... do a little shopping, I got some good food from Trader Joe's, we walked

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... . "Did you feel that?" "Yes." "Is that…supposed to happen?" "I don't think ... feeling even older than I did, stamped my form in a huff, and I booked it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... ! Summertime is a great time for you to take a class in something that you have ... are a few that I know about; RSI , WTP , MITES , Duke TIP , The

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  used to cling to regret—I wish I could go back in time and do MIT all ... values to prioritize—certainly that is better than wandering in the dark ... aspirational future. Except that isn’t quite correct. In choosing to take a year

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask ... bad ones, but is there a general teaching "style" that most professors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... photos during the actual storm (I also thought I’d be fine with a sweater

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  expensive" Fun Stuff Boston is a major-ish city! This means that doing ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... 's Las Meninas, was transcendent. Transcendent is a word that I overuse, I ... work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006