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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have[annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for ... simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... cake. I'm so serious. I have no words for this. It was a cute little

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17 ... in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes ... conference and on a paper in Cell. I'd worked on an independent project for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  here I am 100% sure I will be ready for a career in the Air Force. ... first, let me start with a little background. The question I get asked ... Force officer. As a freshman, I'm in AS.100, and right now we're learning

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  I've written in the past about my love for Disneyland. Growing up a ... the parks and have a lot of fond memories there from my childhood. I ... Puerto Rico from my trip, Kat and I watched the entirety of Fleabag, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  .[/caption] Where I'm from in Camarillo, California, we have a dry season, a wet ... to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... channels. Which makes for a fun game on my bike, as I dash between puddles

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... presents a new and exciting ground for analysis (I have a lot more ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose ... with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  and I got to talk to some people who I haven't seen for more than a ... pretty much nonexistent for a few years until the current president, Linda ... for an hour and ended up staying for nearly 2 and a half hours. This is

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... prototype by the end of the semester. The project I ranked #1 for 2.75 is a ... seated before the array of blackboards, the backdrop of a stage where

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  large list of things that I can recall having learned from those classes ... console myself. I'm not sure. All I can say now is that I graduated from MIT ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... masses I was watching with disgust from the restaurant? This is a common ... I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  intro class for my liking. I would have preferred a much bigger chem class ... friends. Yes - it can also exist for academic masochism, but I have no doubt ... for 18.01 (as a lot do from the Calc BC exam): Fall Spring 8.01x 8

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn a cool new thing in ... advise creative projects in the office and serve as a touchstone for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... imitate the classical style from ancient greece and rome. for instance, many ... were copying a style from over a thousand years ago, what was the point

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  Princess Bride reference. What can I say, I'm a sucker for happy endings. Yes ... meet some people from Brown and hang out with them for a little while ... , convinced me that I could be happy too. There is a future where I could be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you ... (when did that happen?!), so we frosh can finally declare a major. I ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  now a professor in Course 20 who I saw every week for the past 6 years ... ’t changed:  I still have a penchant for dramatic flair (I wrote two farewell ... served. I can’t condense this shift—mine or campus’s—into a few sentences

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a ... practical jokes. But I'm going to build up the suspense a bit longer, because ... letters, which really bites. I have no idea what this must be like for you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005