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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  almost fell off a giant mountain. Zozer '07 smashed a fly with a spatula. What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... online are a good place to start. And there are plenty of research

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  similar vein to my first post which used Onlooking as a springboard. added ... class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as ... life here. this is a lot of words to say that i've been neglecting my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... would also get me to actually read these papers. It did not. I carried a ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  Hollywood actor so he could get rich enough to buy a spaceship and return to ... creating robotics simulations like these. A lot of time was spent trying to ... to write about for my final project, so I took a theory I have about

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I ... school in that area. It was a dream I had to go there. When I was just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  having a painted room over a white one without having to do any work? Mike said: i don't really know how to say this but i've been trying to find a ... , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and ... there's going to be a lot of talk about this over the next few months

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... . Sounds like a win-win to me. Maple Leaf Cookies (these go super fast) I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... computer. So, sorry, Swapnil, it’ll have to wait a bit longer. At the same

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  call from a deferred applicant, there's nothing that I see to be lacking ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. A frequent line to ... knowing that one year from now, you'll be getting ready to take some time of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... :]." Ariadne, I've arranged for you to be contacted this weekend by Nicki '07

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  those same questions just a year or so ago. They are also easy to locate ... great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... anything. Boston is a great walking city and I hope you'll take some time to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I ... or even some larger liberal-arts type schools, it helped to know that a

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

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and ... steakhouse (after the wedding) - Learned to play a card game called Hands & ... with my sister while on a walk, which is to say that the tornado touched

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... . Not having a car was not going to be a huge problem. As regular readers ... a car is nice. But buying a car off of Craiglist is always dicey, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lonely but exciting road and choosing to traverse it

  

  listening to cellophane by FKA twigs. cellophane is a vastly depressing song ... . Why was I listening to such a sad song? Because, of course, it’s great ... something, have to move forward, bring the world forward somehow. Maybe in a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about ... , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... , but there's no developed market for it. You have to create a need before ... ". But until you can talk to AI bots like a regular person, they won't see

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... 'd probably lose a lot of money trying to market that. But instead of being ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  not be done, because you are too afraid to let a tradesperson see your ... reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course ... would motivate me to put it away so that I would have, you know, a floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006