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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  they drive off. 3pm - 6pm Take food to next class, a 3 hour graduate ... important! especially for whoever happens to sit behind you in lecture). Hang ... . Usually stay anywhere between half hour to 4 hours at the longest. This is

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who are imagining what life might be like here, here is some important

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... email. We'll be happy to help. Additionally, I do have two important ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  added that there would be someone coming to speak who was so important ... particular culture, and the importance of listening to and building trust with ... you give them, office hours or picket line. Then I had to go: it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  . Meaning, unless you're wiling to spend hours pouring every ounce of your ... . It doesn't take any guides or YouTube videos to start figuring stuff ... navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... ) -- you don't have to follow it to the letter, but it helps to guide your ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  . And rather than leverage my freedom to finally sleep normal hours or ... surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... (admittedly scattered and noncontiguous) hours a week, I managed to learn about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  homework, I sat down to draw concept art for the pies. Five hours straight on ... ”. Horrifying. It took over three hours in the oven to solidify into something ... amounted to about 40 hours to non-schoolwork and still come out fine? So

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... 's Tale to Terminator 2. The second shelf has a pair of blank white

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... . Afterwards, some students stuck around to ask more questions of MIT student ... way to several brunches hosted by the faculty housemasters. This brunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the ... instructor's permission. Professor: Ina Lipkowitz format: two 1.5 hour lectures ... delayed her trip to the hospital to give birth because she was so engrossed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  experience was there to critique us. A track was playing to help guide the 8 ... Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the ... magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  , and can easily spend an hour watching videos about how not to ... hours ahead and it is not fun, ESPECIALLY since I’ve been trying to sleep ... video creators sharing various approaches to being more productive, having

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  for what you're going to do with the grant money (a very important part ... MIT and need to do psets. This is what I have to look forward to: I realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  hour bus ride back playing road trip games and trying not to lose our ... In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours to San Diego to attend TwitchCon 2022. Perhaps to no one's surprise, I ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  only a few seconds for us to be greeted by one of our next tour guides ... Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  HOURS OF MY LIFE DOING THAT I NEVER WANT TO SEE ANOTHER SAINT ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... to steal her computer. First stop: gmail calendar, obviously. You get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  a couple hours or a couple days. Usually, when people come to our ... posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield's trip to the White House to join President Obama talk about clean energy research (video

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009