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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... thumbtacks, bought the summer before I came to MIT, probably during a 2 am trip ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  on the dot with the blast of a vuvuzela. Thanks to Facebook and the ... early dinner. A beautiful end to a snowy day. Although it's back ... The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena ... broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  a friend from high school, who happens to be a pre-med (DING!) at ... !) of dissolving salt in hot water to make a solution strong enough to ... found himself stricken with a case of influenza, exhibiting such symptoms

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but we don't yet have a mail date set for this year. Just wanted to clarify

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... applications this weekend, so I am struggling to write a charming, yet ... /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  after 7pm Got stuck in Stuttgart returning back to Zürich because of a ... Learned to cook a traditional Czech meal in Prague Went to my first wine ... , and went to my first bar in the US FALL Started a new series for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face ... to medical school" Definitely! A lot of people at MIT (about 10%, I've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  saw my blogger photo taped to my pillow.   IT'S A FULL 8.5”x11 ... walked back to my suite lounge after another round of classes and a meal at ... Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... around 20 minutes total a day to cook dinner and clean dishes.  That means ... 's pan (I prefer it to a regular frying pan because it's deeper and can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  mission to make the world a better place. We deferred 5,853 applicants ... it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive. Take a ... applications. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... don’t need a graduation requirement to convince me to take that! First

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  everything updated. We're having what might turn out to be a record year so ... application pieces not showing up on your tracking. There's a lot of mail to ... beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the ... a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  a few minutes to spare (on MIT time). T-6 mins before exam begins. 11 ... .01. Can’t figure out a part of a part of a problem. Noooooo. Time to go to ... convenietnly opened up. Would love to take a nap, but it’s time to discuss

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and ... years, I've found myself traveling quite a lot. I've flown to London every ... , but this means that flights just force me to think. A lot. In the time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... .00 (Intro to Psychology), 9.01 (Intro to Neuroscience), and a probability

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  blogging community admits to our crimes of media over the past year via a ... nobody wants to fill out a form that long at the beginning of Finals season ... 'd like to take a trip down memory lane, check out Abby's first Blogger

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to ... saw the aurora borealis. I'm a little too sleepy to blog about all of ... would encourage you to join me. Maybe, if I'm so motivated, I'll write a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005