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• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks ... write and 2 exams still in August, I'll have to spend my summer continuing

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 ... MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  . Just as surreal as it was to get my acceptance more than four years ago. And just as surreal as it was to hold my MIT ID card in hand, staring ... , please remember to eat your meals and hydrate, regardless of how crazy your

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... 's even a Wikipedia article about it! It's how most MIT students, in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... 've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  away in the back; he very wearily said no. Maybe he gets that question a ... conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1 ... room in half. To my right: my desk, and my rolly chair, which has MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... getting much worse to slightly better and I went to MIT Medical urgent care ... wanted to take classes in Course 4, and the two I ended up with are morning

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  two are out to get me. You'll never get my wisdom teeth! Neither of you ... to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the ... anything to blog about, just a lack of time in which I can do so. (I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... with this: Tree trunks get so postered that we resort to taping flyers ... Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we communicate with each other, designing how we involve ourselves or get others involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  'm Getting Over You, she told all these little elementary schoolers to punch ... it on my shiny new Spotify account and listening to Favourite Colour in ... took me to get iq tested and the guy told me that i had poor spatial

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  to get an idea of the lighting conditions in Crate and Barrel, kind of ... friend who is nicknamed "Bucket," but she was too busy in class to come get ... asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... habits, and also to show frosh and prospective future frosh how free food ... clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of ... matter, I've arranged them here in chronological order to provide (the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  prices reduced up to 90% off. How could they afford to sell them for such ... sums of several hundreds. It could get crazy in there and it wasn’t hard ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  somewhere? And the 8 ivy leaves (haha, get it?) our beaver happens to be ... . [All photo credit in this entry goes to Jeanne '13 - thank you, Jeanne!] ... most recognized rings in the world but also pretty much the single item

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the ... myself with the strongest support system I could ever imagine in order to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016