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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  a year's worth of collected bubble wrap for 10 minutes, consumed ... stack of free bowls, devoured pancakes at 4 AM, walked through a room ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  its tail’s end, I find myself optimistic for 2017. There are at least ... , but for a spate of fireworks, making January 1 just another day. For me ... , and I have to go shopping for microwavable popcorn. Still, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  (3381 words). Content warning for violence. This one's cheating because ... I made. UPDATE: Here's the 2022 post. Things I read for class I took ... ). Content warning for domestic violence. This isn't a short story, but I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  from field observations will be crucial for my own future research. I really want to improve my qualitative research skills: for that I plan to ... prestigious centre that takes students from all over the subcontinent for MBAs

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... ’t even be on campus to try out an intramural sport, for example. I desperately hoped for an on-campus spring, so I still signed up for many sports

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... charity show the weekend we'd depart for Palestine. But this was an ... Old City of Jerusalem and some of its holy sites. I was amazed with the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact that I'd survived a year with a 4.0(/5.0) GPA -- thank God for pass ... no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... — a green alternative material for an established company that was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  I win. So I apologize for having disappeared (somewhat) off the ... thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... nice break from the rigors of MIT during the term. Whee - no physics for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... high-school I resolved to play infinite games. To find and fight for the ... and put down this stroke for all that you will do! But I have noticed in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  innovative thinking are taking a hit. "Because students are so busy all the ... into their imagination enough," Jones says. Her remedy: "Let's free up a ... sometime the only) option for students looking to be challenged and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  fun for what it was, though an unexpected hurdle came up. Caitlin ... in the capital city: Yerevan. Our teaching program also covered a day ... ways but, instead, subtleties. The city was lined with rose-colored tiles

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  leishmaniasis which can be fatal. The city: Paris has a lot to offer and truly all the weekends there are not enough to explore the city. The city ... transgenic newts and frogs that would allow for the study of angiogenesis

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... ; We also refer to people as their majors. For example, "What course are ... their numbers, rather than by their names. For example, 'Fundamentals of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  requirements for the Maker Portfolio. For current requirements, see here.  Hello ... make sure that everyone understands what we are looking for.   Q1 ... , for example: new origami designs, a chainmail suit, a potato cannon, a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be described:   Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it ... . To be fair, it’s worse to have heat waves here because the city isn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  for it, though I think it's a perfectly valid thing"]city kid without a ... back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... had brought me a blanket from my room and some tea for the rest of the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  time when I ever have free time to use as I please. Right now, there ... this free time to do more work. That's not the most healthy mindset, I ... out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020