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• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  throwing a blog entry opening party, where you can get you picture taken with ... sandbath preheaters and ooh free bagels!" so I shirked responsibility for a ... meeting Bruce Campbell, but for some reason I still feel a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  a couple responses, including from "estelphoenix," who wrote: I have ... much! Also, a comment from "struggling," who wrote: yes i am still ... , but I believe that it does give you a drink-from-the-firehose look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  , and I'm two classes and one thesis away from a second degree in writing ... tardiness? I honestly did not think it was possible for me to get a second ... can be and how much I can accomplish. I can graduate from MIT. And that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  representatives (because who wouldn't want to work for a cool company like i ... later than I expected because a friend asked for help on 8.02 (Electricity ... , Nat and I struggled again. We called for a cab, which took an hour to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  you may or may not have noticed, I've been absent from these blogs for ... of one wholesome blogger alum.  Here's a quick rundown of what I ... interference, where siRNA is used to stop specific genes from being translated

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer ... want to learn about Islam. I ask her for a lesson. We get drinks, snacks ... and whether anyone has died from exposure to radio waves*. I show them a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... bitter end; but more than a few who had found no resistance where they

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  far edge of the Eastern time zone), and I would eventually wander a few ... . Today, my world is bigger. I live in a different apartment now (still in ... work from home. Even on reading days, I usually opt to leave and head to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  saw a giant Coke bottle for a building. It was Coca-Cola World. I had ... blogging before and I think I have a great opportunity. My fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma (aka Skullhouse) has a tradition where the senior class goes

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  ’ve stood in line at Maseeh’s dining hall at 12 pm for a halal burger. I ... filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I ... ’ve failed a midterm. I’ve aced a midterm. I’ve laser cut and assembled a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  with a lot of family issues, i was living alone for the first time, and i ... today Still trapped, from night's bath You wish I had no work today You ... "make your own python". i'm having a lot of fun thinking about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  ) blogging about a trip I took a month ago. Sorry for the delay - this sort of ... friends for a while (THANK YOU TO XIAOYUE '15 FOR MAKING US ALL BREAKFAST <3 YOU ARE A SUPERSTAR). At 9:30, I realized it was 9:30, and leapt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  the extra three points I needed for an A! Moral of the story? Don ... likely adjusted for inflation. I remember my first score was a 49/100, just ... grade, but I learned a few things from 8.02 and kept my guard up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  is a masterpiece. If you have the Internet for it, I strongly encourage ... ! My name is YQ, and I’m one of Lydia’s friends from Random Hall. A few ... pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  A? Thank you so much for your help, and I hope to hear from you soon ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to ... officially register for a double major, this is how I went about it. 1) Fill

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  course has a reputation for being one of the most impactful courses you can ... PSETs have a definite start and end, it's hard for me to gauge how much I ... completely blanks. Unless I'm actively working on an assignment for that course

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  other extracurricular stuff, ahhh. I wish there were a pause button for life. Or maybe just a fast-forward button - because I cannot waittt for ... So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  freshman comes home for the summer after just dropping out, as a result of ... work, and so we came And now I'm wide awake A million years too late I ... 's really scary. Uncertainty is really scary. All we can do (aside from the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020