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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... graphs are ugly! I've been learning how to use STK (Satellite Tool Kit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries. :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) office, which then gets turned in to both ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... it in the window of our main lounge, visible to anyone walking down

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... the process, breaking it down to how it works, and how to do it to get ... looks so if I spend money to get it cut I just go to technicuts in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  "antimatter". It's similar to Ordinal Markup in that the numbers get really big ... Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... 't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  Price Rd. to get onto Olive Blvd. and I couldn’t help but think about how ... the roads I was just starting to get intimately familiar with, in spite ... are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... that it's possible to participate in community service at MIT.  One of ... and put effort into making the world a better place to live in, even if

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  't know how I had time to bake brownies, but I fit in somehow! They were oh ... , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... frowned upon to willingly do work outside of work? i get why it's bad if you ... sees me replying to a message after hours, she tells me to get off slack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in ... /when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA ... lounge how much free time they have in the average weekday. Mark '07 ... to major in course 4 and course 5, respectively.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into ... UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... spray to help it release and I dipped the balloons multiple times to get a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  First Day. (credit to L.S. '18) I will never get tired of the wonderful ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018