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• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad ... am no longer going to be a college athlete, I think I'd better start

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  'm listlessly thinking to ask her about the force on a dipole due to the gradient ... delectable excuse to go geocaching with a low-precision car GPS that will ... weekend at pika, after waking up on Thanksgiving day to a house full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... started a nonprofit in our town to teach young girls math! “Challenge you ... it was next to Massachusetts. That seemed to ring a bell for them. Now

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my ... access to a Costco: it's pretty far away, and although an MIT shuttle does run there about once a week, you also need to have someone who has a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called ... , which were a quarter of the way to their full autumnal colors. Maybe I ... friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the ... afar, you might be tempted to think that there’s a forty-story behemoth ... that you need a makeshift coordinate system to refer to each window (“the

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... cake withou flour. So, I had to apply to a college abroad, and MIT was my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a ... now have a place to live if housing costs go up. (Honestly, that bench

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  kind of conference I was attending. But when I told him I was going to a ... /she have to die?' saying, 'I don't know, I haven't read the book,' is a bad ... ," Jones says. It is, of course, just a book, and that's a fine thing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  , and a wireless mouse that used a wired mouse that connected to a computer that sent info to a 3D printer that had a wired mouse taped to its ... in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I was the only one able to go, which meant that I didn't know a single ... LED (no joke). And, I'm happy to report that after a month and a half of ... for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to ... to you lickety split." I might also add that the MIT ID # is a nine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped to pick up Boston Symphony Orchestra college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... would sacrifice an afternoon nap for a one-mile walk across the Harvard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of ... of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... Island, followed quickly behind by Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In ... I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... was little, I used to always get a 96-box of Crayola crayons for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  's a committee decision, and we do the best that we can to treat the ... , truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether ... write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004