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• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  satisfaction in mounting things to a wall" /] I finished the structural ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  remember how to write in cursive anymore, and don't know how I managed it ... applications in cursive, I would probably be a starving artist right now. The ... really "in the know," but I think Marilee Jones would be quite pleased if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  international students.   This past week, I attended an annual conference on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The ... applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount ... , said MIT student Ben Glass, who was traveling ahead in a lead car. ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  ‘18 and I moved into Dream Machine, a cozy double in the third floor of ... wondering: what in the world are we doing? Finally, we mounted our ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  (^how to make studying for finals in December cozy) I have had ADHD since ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  mushrooms, I include them in almost every meal greens: I buy a mixed baby ... normal definition of the word, but it's what I would call ragu in Russian ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  lived in EC, and my experience likely would have been different had I been ... culture, it enabled it in many ways. I'm interested to see how things change ... 's interesting to think about how student community will change with it. In this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... a week in Niagara Falls. I enjoy spending time with my sisters, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  't updated in 6 days; you guys are my American Idols. I also discovered while ... would be forced to rely on their weaker hand as much as possible. In the ... to Dvorak, would set me back about $20. That's just stupid. So, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  mounted with an internal webcam that would detect, identify, and tag with an ... extension that would allow users to copy-paste text directly from in ... . The second-place-winning project of HackMIT 2013, in the making. I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  tried to cancel out the d’s in dy/dx as one would do with fractions. I ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  about living in Macgregor next year, but I have a question. I know everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... [I am completely blanking... Shalimar, maybe?] in Central Square -- if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  without any more additional delays I would only be home in Berlin three or ... the driver in a vaguely [annotation note="this is how I knew the guy was ... This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  MIT - it's been a crazy few weeks, but I'm finally settled in and ready ... housemaster Roe, the floor convened to discuss how we would deal with similar situations in the future. Eventually we began discussing possible solutions, i

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  waiting in front of me, so my adult ego got the best of me. I forgot how ... Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... , but I would keep getting hosed :( but a few weeks agp, I wasn't hosed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... , no matter how confusing things get, i know we'll always be in each ... unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... years old now! In celebration of my dad and I becoming certified EMTs

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... years, Kathy and I have traveled to some pretty cool places in the last 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  speaking in an unknown Asian language on his cell phone, I asked him how much ... the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007