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• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head home for holidays with the family, and New Year's Eve with old MIT ... of campus, and ended up with some great wine glasses at the end. Nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  left my computer job and moved to rain city with a friend from computer ... enjoyed doing nothing stopped enjoying doing nothing felt a bit sad and lost ... to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT ... here and what you got yourself into, but if you take a few seconds and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the ... harvest the cells for a Western blot or stain them with fluorescently ... 's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  that it would both have a movable mouth and that the eyes would flash red ... adventure that ended up with a lot of people very covered in whipped cream and ... got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 'm looking for a large sample size, so don't be a lurker -- tell me why you ... -- write them, put them in a drawer for a few days, come back, revise, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  pass/fail instead of with a letter grade, you can use the additional ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  Random for a number of reasons, so i was left with East Campus. EC has dope ... a great space to hang out with people, though, so i'm excited for the ... for giving my community a home and i want to help them maintain their

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  remember my dad looking at me with his honest, slightly concerned eyes as he ... just how powerful and true that piece of advice was. You see, as a ... want to hang out with people, and learn how to paint, and go ice skating

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  steps. And then I took a bigger step, and bought meat for the first ... share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my

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

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  sad you won't have Shake Shack for 3 months Eat Shake Shack and look ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the ... possible (boo) For the first time, get excited that security is taking a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  I first arrived at MIT as a tourist, a thirteen-year-old with glasses ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  we can drive you back to your dorm with them. Oh, and we'll pay for it ... go make my room look more like a room and less like a storage closet ... , which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... bathroom stocked with The Economist, Kitchen Confidential, and the Forbes ... constituencies if they get a picture with Bono flashing a peace sign in his purple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin Hsin, a restaurant on Mass. Ave which has some cheap eats and really good

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... chocolate confiscated. Settle in for a drive home with Sam's Mom, eat some ... said that if anybody could come up with an exact formula and prove it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  in cooking, laundry, etc. I am having a great stay in South Asia, and I ... the interaction, academic and otherwise, with graduate students ... and influenced by top thinkers, formed strong friendships, and got a

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  -but-fairly-acceptable-cooking skills, greater time spent with and more appreciation for my family, a ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... that in every direction I looked stood people with amazing abilities and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  less frequently and with more consideration for other people. The fact ... report card, and decorated it with a drawing that I labeled "bath cat". I ... people - and I'm still friends with a number of them today. Occasionally, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011