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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  about MIT blogs also. This is my general e-mail folder, not my special ... becuase I don't understand quite how IMAP works on Eudora 6.2. No ... is at work and how excited she gets. The standard deviation, however

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  bunch of us out-of-towners met up with some MITers who are working in ... not touristy enough, we headed on over to the Space Needle to continue ... his name, since he will be working in admissions next year. The next

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  dinner? I shouldn’t make another coffee, should I? I usually would. I’m not ... work from home. Even on reading days, I usually opt to leave and head to campus to work instead. On the rare days that I do stay back, like today, I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  decision, and working in the [annotation note="global engineering! Build a ... [annotation note="not that any of y’all would know about that ;)"]worst websites ... within your area of study. Or you may not. If you don’t, maybe they don

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  Hall! There are tons of exciting ones so come check us out, and worry not ... , and try things you're not sure you'll like; MIT is all about new experiences! Elizabeth K. '14 Don’t stress over not being able to do everything

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  don't spend more money than you make and things tend to work out ... watching South Park I thought to myself "Why am I not skydiving?  What ... not die when jumping out of an aircraft. We used some pretty high

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... make more and better artwork; I have mixed opinions on whether or not I ... design is that you get to actually see your work in use, especially when it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  , and I devoured many a video on “how to not make anime hair look like ... things like fire, where it’s not productive to plan out the start and end ... ’s because animations have to work harder to convince us that they are good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result ... hours, the time of day when you work best. For me, that's an hour after I ... .046, so I blocked off time to work through those. I also prioritized what I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  planning the weekend and hosting one of our visiting students. While we work ... can navigate their future campus environment. So why not adventure ... being on campus. Watching all the students work together to solve the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore ... inner workings, such as consumer electronic devices. 18.03 had theorems we ... wanted to be around people like that. Not hiding from my passions. At MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  beach over radio and talk to each other on air while driving (probably not ... never works permanently. Every once in a while, somebody tries to clear up ... worked, and the marshmallows melted nicely onto a paper plate, from which

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work ... actually follow the form or modify the form to our liking.  1. i did not ... disillusioned. Between working in an isolating environment, struggling under a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  after realizing I did not want to source tools and materials. I do ... feel more fear than I do because they were generally not late. They also ... natural, not canned?” “Do you have advice on building magic systems

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... 's absolutely delicious, but definitely not the most nutritious.) From there on ... middle school. I hated running. I was not good at it. I am asthmatic and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  working title of the spread for the entire semester, and we came up with ... District, a thrift shop not far from campus that has a pay-by-the-pound pile ... . For other pieces, such as the orange skirt, I worked with circular

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  , and they also do not get first priority for their dorm choice, unlike BC ... want freely, able to hang out when we want. i have a bike and am not a ... friend sucks since we need to preserve Burton Conner culture, but it's not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... . Eventually it stopped working entirely. We did get a new toaster, though, and ... ramen, although it's not actual ramen. More like rice noodles? In any case

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  on Monday night.[/annotation] Many components of the plan, while not ... back. Working out: When the summer started, we decided to work out ... workout. Would I still be able to do that on the Zoom workout? If not, what

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  Fest 2017"]"time flies."[/annotation] Now I have even more deadlines to work ... -telling. [annotation note="She's Not Like Other Girls"]As a Luddite at a tech school ... be transferred but not destroyed: this idiosyncrasy has most likely re

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019