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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an entire school day. How have I achieved this? It all started with my alarm ... . During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was ... : Notice how I stare at Zach in awe as he scarfs down dog number 7. I am just ... I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... accent. The names are fascinating too. Under any other circumstance, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  uncharitable to myself, maybe I would say it was ego—contributing to such a high ... to continue editing Wikipedia, I think those efforts would be better ... Cross-posted on my Substack here. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  and that improved the taste. I would bring one around campus and sip it ... brothers and I would get the meatballs and French fries because we were kids ... Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  I noticed about MIT--that underlying, unshakable thumpthumpthump that echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... , filling them with a determination and vigor I've never quite seen before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  more seriously in workplace environments, how to sound confident when I ... , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me autumn has already breathed its dying breaths.  I'm an [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  (Bioengineering), but I still don’t quite believe them yet (seriously, a senior? how ... ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a ... ’s driveway, I thought it warranted a mention. It’s not like there isn

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 ... period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  どうしてみなさん外国語を使う？ひさしぶりだけど、いつ必要ですか？ じゃ、僕も英語を書きません。そして…. I kid I kid, though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first ... next batch came out fine. But then I ruined them by trying to turn them into egg salad. See, what I really wanted was an egg salad sandwich (I

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how ... . Conversation (always) goes like this: I haven't visited China since I started

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  . But I have no idea how they do it. Anyway, I had just reached the ... MIT is hard. Seriously. That's why we have study breaks. I know that sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours of fencing practice, I would stumble out of the Z-Center with a ... bite of a spicy Italian sub, I would do anything - including trudging

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  My Mets clinched the NL East, and I am crazy psyched. Whoo! So what else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  . Plus I got to meet Bryan in real life, and he promised he would organize ... Well, apparently I touched a nerve with my last entry -- sounds like ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  the homeless that he and his friends were doing. I joined and that's how ... around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  start my own project. I remember how cool I felt when I first told my friends about “mutagenesis” like it was some dirty word. Just kidding…I ... guest-blog about it, and I figured, hey, science is awesome, MIT is

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you ... technological innovation.  Not just to make money, but to change the world.  And I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  I somehow managed to cut him off from Math Overflow, he would probably ... software development ever somehow fell through, I would have no objection to ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011