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• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  be clicked for larger versions. You can read more blog posts by and ... Shaena B. '13 and Jen W. (grad student in Biological Engineering). They had ... cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... supporting our communities in meaningful ways so that we can create a society in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule ... Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  ? Wouldn't they have told you about the ring there? Well, in fact... Almost ... the week following Ring Premiere) in Lobby 13 and walked my way down the ... dollars!" MMmmmmm. Good feeling. More of that in 2020, thank you! So anyway

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  -lovable Elizabeth, '13, by snapping a picture of one of these people in uncomfortably close range. Even if you can take a guess on who they are, you haven ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a commercial that ran during football season titled "You make the call." The idea

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  performances of Shakespeare plays in the Boston Common that you can watch for ... aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  (can I use this expression?), it was borderline miserable. Once in a ... *. Also, I secretly want to 1-up the plastic cow in showing you what life at ... It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  a classmate calling studio “a time warp” – you just don’t know how long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at ... that you have a general spatial understanding of where studio is, here

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  always leads to me being heartbroken in March, but nonetheless I can't help ... . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of ... seeing the choices people make, the ways in which people grow, the ways in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  in a setting where no one knows you is indescribable. one of my ... of preparation, as you can imagine. and that's why i spent up to eight ... was always much more fun—everyone in my living community is amazing, we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have ... feel like Things Fall Apart really reflects that. As much as you can see ... or finish, I hope you’ll find time to read this summer! It can be on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  ?" "i tried to and i can't" "so then what are you gonna do about it ... failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the ... take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  My friend Stephan’13 exploded into Internet fame over the holidays ... ) does a pretty thorough job technically documenting the project, but you ... . Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

    sang anime karaoke with my ‘13 friend in Chinatown and also talked a bit ... personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on ... , i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn ... . ~*~ I wouldn't have believed you if, before camp began, you had told me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  gives you a really beautiful opportunity: you can have a job that you love ... very messy rationalization. But you can absolutely take my word for my ... biological systems are so fine-tuned that biologists can only push research

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  work, and life is good. But in the meantime, you probably want to do ... clincher here is you can actually save the game AND just post the link they give you anywhere. Meaning, we can all work on this together and keep

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009