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• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  atomic physicist. In fact, I definitely would have tried to angle myself ... wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  nuts, would I get in or not, if I did which would I pick, and if I didn ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... we would actually find out. I'm told that all the letters were mailed

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... relationship with my ex-girlfriend. He and I would break rules that were in ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  voices in my head always used to be questioning, that I would go back and ... , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... living in a hostel -- I imagine that would be draining after a month ... my life. I'm really, really glad I did it. But would I do it again in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  've experienced in college. I would like to give back somehow, but I'm not really ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... would be so happy if I could show this in a way other than my MIT ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2 ... other paper, by a lot I would do a confidence interval but not when n = 2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many ... it out :'). wait are you in [annotation note="dynamics and control I"]2 ... his number in our animation drafts to scare him. Audrey: how do we end

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  summarize the entirety of my MIT experience in one sentence, it would be: I ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... during those weeks what they thought life would be like in 2020, they would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  's basically the word "nonsense" in plural noun form, and I absolutely love it. I'm coming to realize more and more how few words have exact ... Spanish, so I don't feel out of line putting it in this blog. They

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first time how i'll be quite sad leaving this place when i'm gone. the familiar ... . the chicken coop in the backyard. the housemates who i've come to know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Mikhailovsky castle, which I lived five minutes away from in the fall. I would ... before I would leave for Russia. We went in the morning, so the museum was ... ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to ... time I was stuck in an airport overnight? The next day, I and 1,203 other ... . 170 were Haitian. 441 were Cuban. I love living in Miami. (I mailed my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  in a saucepan just to see what would happen. I remember meeting French ... 't half-ass anything on Conner 2, unless it's every problem set I turned in ... tour of Boston that basically touched on every place in Boston I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... . Also, I wasn't too interested in the prize of a VIP card to any of Boston ... , his first name is technically "the," right? How do I greet him? "Hey

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006