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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... route that loops from Reykjavík into central Iceland and back. It hits a ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did. What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... . I was doing a regional reception in a city a few years back, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  same note, July Fourth is a wonderful day for free stuff. FREE toothpaste ... , FREE Pillsburys....celebrate Independence Day with FREE goods! 1. For ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  when the Bad Ideas Weekend email (and subsequent reminder email) hit my ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me ... ’s a discussion for a different blog."]five[/annotation] classes this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... getting sprayed... For two glorious days, us engineers relaxed and ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions ... of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations ... students, reading their applications and interviewing them for the

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  have less “free-time”, but I made up for a lot of the busy time during ... arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... March, a presentation that accounted for 30% of my grade, and what felt

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  afterward. Then, I’m going to Chocolate City for Ill Vibes, an open mic sort ... and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh ... did get myself involved in things (hooray!). Today I went shopping for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  abundance of free food and the suspicious absence of work, but I felt I owed ... Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... dining hall fit for Hogwarts. It was nothing like that. That was Thursday

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  -year life cycle I bought a JuniorTicket for 13.40 from the Leverkusen train station. It lets me take the trains and buses around the city where I'm living Köln or Bonn as much as I want. Even though it pays for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  people in my home city. People that had been living there for ages, but ... now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  skyline of a city I call genuinely like calling home. In a quick recap of ... being said, I cannot wait to see what’s in store for next year. My whole life, I never really made a resolution for New Years. I always kind of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  up all over the rainbow carpet and had to go home sick for the first ... a visit, but when I tell you the ballet itself, for lack of a better ... , cofounder of the New York City Ballet, aka one of the biggest names in ballet

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  for any mice expressing an extended circadian period but otherwise ... study, there are a ton of things inherently flawed with this quick-and-dirty method of looking for a mutation, the most obvious one being the sheer

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008