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• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  startup, because it highlights why my classes are helping prepare me for ... undergraduate students which made it quite fun—grad students often have different perspectives and are usually more grounded in their ideas (both good and bad

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  biological systems are so fine-tuned that biologists can only push research ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... that you would do it for free, then you've hit the jackpot. Speaking of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  , and many of my weekends this semester are probably going to follow a ... . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... drinking this smoky drip brew I just made that has a really intense, fruity

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  similar to MIT’s 8.01/8.02). My mom also made sure I knew all the basic life ... the first time I made breakfast for the family I was probably 7 or 8). I ... the left of her :)    And of course, my mom has always made sure I had a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  in over summers. This summer, I think I've made a reasonably sized dent because I've been attempting to partition my work time and my free ... aren't all the metrics that a game is usually evaluated on but are the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public ... told my friends there were free ice cream sundaes every Monday in ... Spaniard Manolo, and that there are palm trees on the sixth floor of our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  be like, I would probably have said "free sewing study hall", with ... are never neutral--even the smallest little detail tells you something ... someone who they are." That resounded with me, because that's why I love to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  , most people who make it through this place. My calls only made it ... this problem as prefrosh, and while I'm not going to say "omg we are ... hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  . However, there are some times where you just need a distraction, when you ... can definitely say there are times where you just don’t have the time to ... ’t know falsettos or crescendos or if the two are even related, but I know

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  .  MIT truly is a place where you are forced to drink from the firehose ... end, I made a really cool visualization modeling the Brownian motion of ... thing where the drop date for the class is extended until the next

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  someone's house there for free. enough people defected to San Diego that I ... ="burton conner communities, as you might imagine. burton 3rd is where i lived ... of money on Ubers. oops! the bridge view made it super worth it, though

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... around and enjoy the simple things you have. When you pack, you stay where you are and hate all the excess stuff you've got. Anyway, not long

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to me to risk judgment by other people. The fact that there are things ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking ... life. If you made it past everything up there, congratulations--now I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  Halloween so I guess I had to make cookies. My favorite halloween cookies are ... friend Kristen made gingerbread houses for hall to decorate It's rainbow ...  Kylie made another work of art   During finals 1E has finals

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  insult, because I'm trying my best, but it's just hard sometimes. There are days where I simply look at my work and feel exhausted. There are others ... perhaps if it's just a vent. The blogs are my free therapy, after all. All

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  actually made me wish that I had been born a size zero woman so I could rock ... out free cookies on the first day of classes every term. That was all I ... MIT paid for it. Also, I remembered that days in Germany are supposedly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  ="234"] the dishes we made are in the foreground[/caption] The ... like, our dining halls are better than Annenberg if you're considering ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  woman walking down the aisle and asked if she knew where we were. She ... looks like it's made out of the same material as those HI I'M HERE PLEASE ... was asking about the mountains outside. I said yes. "Those are the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  , it was like getting lost, vanishing into a dark cabinet where warm voices murmur and where you feel comfort despite the lack of sight. That ... book, giving summaries and free copies and autographs. Whenever they saw

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014