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• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to ... that I got it. So what do you do when you're sick in college? Honestly

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  !!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in ... (they called her Brittany at the shelter), but I really like Arya, like in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  her wallet. Where is it? Where is it?” He’s screaming in my face. I ... promise of a life where you can rise from bed in the morning and be ... week in this country, that word popped up a lot. In orientation, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  subway back in 2003 with duffle bag in hand where I walked into my dorm ... graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... fruit snacks, I can afford a $50 donation once a month...maybe. But

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a ... your left is the Lake City Amtrak Station." "Where?" I asked. "You missed ... the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... permanent resident, live in the US, and not have your 18th birthday before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772 ... , chugging milk, and dying of heat in the middle of winter. I started on the ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  track in American schools. I had learned some basic biology in 6th grade ... hardcore AP Biology in 12th. It’s like – I know what meiosis and mitosis are, and why there is photosynthesis or ATP, but I can’t really tell you too

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  is a place where I will be challenged and I can hone my writing skills ... blogging - where you can write whatever you want, however you want. No ... Okoboji because as long as I can remember I have had a love affair with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  edu. I can't guarantee that I'll answer right away, but I'll promise to try. I love you all, and best wishes in the future! ... Since I start grad school orientation tomorrow, and tomorrow is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  I am flying back to Boston tonight (why do I always book redeyes?) and can't wait to meet all the new '10s. For the past couple of weeks, I ... of all of the fun I have been missing. I am involved in a couple of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  'd want something more than the above.) I'm blogging because in a true show ... . Yes, you read that correctly. I did two whole psets in just under five hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ground beef. I know. That's insane. You can't microwave that stuff! So ... . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  sitting in the admissions website, crying out for me to finish them, but I ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been ... Scott and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, I feel a discernible ache in my chest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  off some games that I made (one of them can be seen in post about Splash ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... thing I’m a blogger) and I can take hours to write a paragraph (<

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  where I'm getting stuck, and then try again in a more focused way. This ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in ... early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  children...” or something, but I think you can see where I’m going. So ... . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010