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• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same ... , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year. But how do you get a UROP?  A good first step is to look at the UROP ... field is simply to get experience in it; through UROPs, clubs, project

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  water get to my bathroom faucet in New House? I have no idea where it ... it is in Boston or Addis Ababa.   How do people “get” water ... used the word “preventing”—to me, it shows how in many places, we take

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  tour. Enter Kavita from Florida. The three of us decided to go to New ... pictures, so I guess I'll start to "show, not tell." (Pwahaha. How many of ... Qichen and Alex pretended to look at something in the sky, while I watched

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown ... how everyone's doing with class, friends, and their new lives away from

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... . MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... us all as freshmen, new to MIT. We are uncertain of many things – of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  it's a cloudy Tuesday morning and i'm walking to Caffe Nero to get a ... my house in Central, and the latte is conveniently free thanks to a ... freshman year. that person can only staple in groups of up to four people

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... . In retrospect, this might just have been because I didn't know how to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  all-nighters to get my college applications in, and neither should you ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to ... powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  want it to be. The community's physical space also plays a role in how ... different vibes that tend to say a lot about the floor. In dorms like New ... from existing in the capacity it's used to, so people would end up moving

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  what happens. See how I add one more item to the list and it collapses and buries me underneath it. How I struggle to find oxygen in this ... roses that have decided to latch their roots onto me, but in the process

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... own goals–in other words, decide which aspects of the job I wanted to ... , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... these soon. Best of all, I get to bond with new residents, transfers and ... , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  sophomore who is still unsure what course to major in. But the reality is not ... -Nehisi Coates, who writes for the Atlantic - which in the past year became my new ... . We're trying to understand science, tech, design in the context of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... of traveling is making new friends! In this trip, I met a wonderful and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  such goodies as how to get your MIT email address and lots of information ... to a few new faces? So I asked the good folks in the MIT Class of 2012 ... include all the snow New England's been getting lately in her photo: As an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... that said, go have a listen to Modest Mouse's new album, We Were Dead ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa ... world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  my class D-Lab: Design for Scale, we had to get welding trained in ... how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of ... make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023