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• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  favorite ideas that I've come across in the collection is the rejection of ... plant, I am learning that the search for balance is ultimately a function ... Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  ’s office is leading a Dear Colleague letter in the Senate that closely ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me ... , and took a nap. I woke up in time to go to MIT Medical, where I saw one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a ... it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  this is going? Pride goeth before the fall. Last week, I...I...I have a ... razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from ... backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I ... had seen so many other people do. I don't know if this is common in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out ... scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... just added songs that were significant in some way or other/songs that i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to ... down. One thing you should know for sure is that the much acclaimed weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are ... getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  otherwise do not have a home that is safe to go to). And MIT has offered ... would happen? How can we believe that it is occurring? But we are also ... scream and stand in silence. There was a party on Killian yesterday that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... competition they have in this category, but a winner is a winner. The store ... ? I think not. These are the shoes that, until today, I wore when I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... miles! 1. Stars and Stripes cow Boston is in the middle of a Cow Parade ... in the church himself (he sent somebody else to do it), and that the it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched the Macy's parade in a tee shirt. Actually, since that one snowfall, the ... the mail for a week or so after it was mailed (i.e. "lost in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW ... and the iPod Touch series. The app is free, and features: A ... people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  that I'd missed. I slept for a bit in the afternoon and studied for 5 ... out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de ... session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of ... 's considering doing a UROP in Brain and Cognitive Sciences as an EECS major. But ... '15 is in Au Bon Pain right as I'm walking outside from my interview

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that ... 'm excited to see how different my academic life will feel now that I'm out of ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021