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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  the one I've answered before. It's a quote from Neil Gaiman's wonderful ... the way JKim '10 did, that's for sure. I can't believe that it ... students are competing for a single spot. Wow. I was already friends with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... 's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  the same field at MIT, where I’ve been working as a UROP at the Page lab ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Living to Create And why I am the things I make.

  

  page can make a beautiful yearbook spread that will be looked at for ... now, anytime I find myself editing something or sketching the idea for a ... These past two years, I’ve unfortunately made a grave and dire

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  lunches from a kitchen that could technically scoot away from you whilst preparing it. Tonight I was walking back from the T along the street where ... " from The Hangover. Ahem - Where do food trucks sleep at when they take a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  applied for a scholarship from GECD received one in the full amount needed ... experiences so far at MIT. For the first nineteen and a half years of my life, I ... unknown place made us bond really quickly. I came back from Madrid with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  from all over. I was really surprised to meet people from a few miles from where I lived to people who lived on the opposite side of the globe ... First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ! recently i’ve been thinking about where i was/what i was doing exactly a year ... college essays, i was applying for random scholarships in a desperate effort ... from a significant portion of the group once renovation comes around, i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  saying that I had been moved from one single to another, I was really very ... happened and cleared everything up for me, but it made yesterday a little boring and lonely. Yes, I was looking forward to having a roommate. Leave

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy ... to discovering my passion for bioengineering. As a freshman, I came to ... only been at MIT for a week. While I had a significant learning curve

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  draws ever closer, I can't believe that it's already been a year since I ... philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was admitted, and make my choice from that list. I can't pinpoint exactly when

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  that I'm actually a bio student, and I'm taking art for fun. MIT does ... University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... class. I got as close as procuring a cross-registration form from the HASS

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep ... ground beef. I know. That's insane. You can't microwave that stuff! So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Without a doubt, I think every student here can agree that problem ... for two reasons; 1. I can sit in the grass and work and 2. I can get ... blogs and write my essays for my foreign policy class. I go here a lot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab. A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills ... I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... how I envisioned my first full day back...but it made for a good bonding ... , the two of us ended up at MIT Medical the next day, where I had a super

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a ... care too much about where I was from. It just wasn’t a big part of my ... things: where you come from, and what your interests are. So, where am I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... . This semester, I have been feeling what I can only describe as an overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  . Small things add up here. Where you study can make a huge difference, for ... the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from ... [Guest Entry from Kelsey Kennedy '12] When I sat down late last

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... an RAA and I can confidently say that they are a group of really great ... , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006