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• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  in New York, oh that concrete jungle where dreams are made of. When I ... there was a storm coming in from the west. Not cute. Luckily, I had my ... I resisted getting Starbucks. In any case, right when I was beginning

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying ... problem sets were hard... and I'd never learned to manage my time wisely in ... place. I skipped class a lot more frequently than I did in my upperclass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  ! Wicked was definitely the highlight! As students, my friends and I can buy ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a friend, I discovered the nuances and tricks that this question can pose ... families we were leaving behind: “How can I help out with the bills this year

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  people here, with brains that function in ways that I can barely comprehend ... . Something about their intensity just draws me in. “But no, I’m a Pisces.” “Oh ... . Spotify holds such a place in my heart that I’ve said it’s one of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... . The little green cabin in the middle of the forest is where I recharge

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  ;   M.I.T. Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix By BILL FINLEY   ... their heads and say, 'Where did you get him from?'" M.I.T Coach Larry ... scorer in M.I.T. history with more than 2,000 career points. He scored 32

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... can watch as I awkwardly introduce the group and we cover a Weird Al ... In October, my yoga studio in Central Square had a special deal where

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... can get to Kendall Square by taking the Tech Shuttle, but in case you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  flight that would happen in just 36 hours. Stress pack because I can’t fall ... you're not interested. but for this post in particular, i think it ... MIT on Pi Day, I started writing up this post in an attempt to express

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another ... ="This is not sponsored and I have never been."]a upscale mini golf bar in ... I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges ... business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct ... parthenogenesis. Anyhoo, the last time I posted, like, a gazillion years ago, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  know you online and in person, and I have loved your memes and inside jokes. Now that I'm leaving the Institute, I feel confident that it's in ... by Admissions. In my freshman year 8.01 Physics I, my two groupmates

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... , I can't simply code some instructions that direct a specific phrase ... was just generated in the previous step. Then, I had to feed my code

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , and I am disappointed in my time management 😅😭 ... magical experiences I’ve had in nature–all these enormous petals gazing up ... things blooming on campus in April and May. I guess spring really does live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  way. The whole experience was so incredible that I still can’t quite ... surprising because I’d previously only ever seen it in East Asia). “Wow!” I ... in kerosene. (I could probably write an entire blog post about how much

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table ... MIT alums in the movie: Colin Angle (iRobot co-founder), as Professor ... .007 competition at MIT. But I can be wrong, since I'm not that mech-E or EECS

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Abstract Ring Delivery is a time-honored tradition in which Massachusetts ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... Rachel R. ’16. Accompanying figures were digitized using an iPhone 4 camera

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014