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• Blog / MIT Life

  chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

  

  for all non-essential employees beginning at 3 p.m. on Sunday, January ... ="300"] cookies from 2^n cookies, a traditional event for my dorm (east ... be around 0.90 inches, corresponding to a snowfall of around 14 inches

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  's latest post, followed by some planning for Campus Preview Weekend, and finally a meeting with a student group. And finally, after posting this ... each other, and both are taking one of my top-5 favorite classes at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... may take a while to get used to ("Look! A real life MIT student! And it ... there involved minimal effort. If I could cross campus for a Baker party

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  of classes, work, and free time. We got a four-day weekend for Columbus Day, and I took full advantage, with an overnight train trip along West ... the Media Lab), and the other is building a tricycle thing (allowing for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  with some coding experience and a passion for solving problems and ... for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT ... until the next morning (with a break for sleep). The next day, they

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  home, and if there isn't, you can start a new club with four other people ... now be both the most newbie admissions counselor/blogger and the new Bea ... their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me ... coexist with Madeline, and Madeline with Badeline. Both characters have ... can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  at MIT.But here's a fun fact: both my roommate and I are performing ... ; Binged on reading Reddit and various macros. I'm particularly a sucker for ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  -- always a fun event), and various other shenanigans, I met up with Anna and ... middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner ... . Look at what we do for you. We almost fell prey to a demon

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  have to learn to work together and play together, and it makes for a one-of-a ... they do at some point for everyone), I had a home and second family to ... ’re just a prefrosh—with liquid nitrogen ice cream and midnight math lectures

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  is a lecturer in the physics department who has been with MIT for six ... a problem and then ask for some help. Take your time to be stuck and ... stories and transcribe them in a blog so that we could highlight the kinds

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  are a potential applicant, you're probably looking for a taste of life ... afternoon unpacking and finished it off by heading out to a barbecue with my ... ), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’t built for it. My dorm, Burton Connor, has no AC, and outlaws window ACs ... Tucson I know fights capitalism and every time I come home, I make a ... I was gone. And yet.  [carousel image1="93001" image2="93003" image3

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  up with concerned grumblings and surprise. I wouldn't expect a whole ... growing, and the sun is shining. MIT is getting ready for CPW as fast as it ... with sleep deprivingly awesome events for an entire weekend. Good luck

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  with researchers and faculty for proposal feedback, and overall ... a line of code and forgetting about it. I felt bad for dragging my mentors through this for a month but props to them for putting up with this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the ... basically a whole meal every hour for a week. When I finally slowed down, they ... ’ve written and deleted this sentence describing it a dozen times. As the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  hounded with endorsement deals (well okay maybe Snively is) but it's a ... office's own running of the bulls, only with more emoticons and Dr. Horrible references... and no bulls... and quite a few vegetarians, actually

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  performed her valedictory speech with her friend and salutatorian Sameer in a ... and is a world-class mathlete. She attended the IMO Training Camp and ... out of the program. In her long experience writing for a few different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  farms in which people will work on a farm for a certain period of time and, for that work, will be provided with food, accomodation, and support in ... to farm and to connect with reality, and after spending a lot of time

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  look at many issues concerning the US and the world today and observe a ... responsible for looking at changes and how to execute them. We revised the list ... week in November, La-Tarri Canty asked Alberto and me, “You both need a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016