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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A: Part 2 where I FINALLY answer the rest of your questions :'D

  

  to the second half of the questions I got, so I'm going to answer the rest of those in a fresh post here.   Unfortunately I'm not a MechE student 😔. I was heavily considering becoming a MechE at one point

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don ... -mail at 2:30, I wonder what this is?" I don't know how many of you are like ... me. This confused me for a good 20 seconds as I stared at the screen of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  's at Solari's. Northern NJ was cool because all of the EC's seemed to go ... drove downtown to JR Masterman, then back up to Central. Those of you who ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  . Unless you are an international Olympian at being Kanye West (or uh, at Physics) you might be caught at some point, post acceptance giddiness ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  throughout most of that book. Merudh: so hows the cafeteria food at MIT? you ... students usually try to get their money's worth of it. At the same time ... -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  at 9:30 but the rest of us, uh, did not"]11am,[/annotation] we set to ... alarm rang at an ungodly 6am. I stumbled out of bed, wolfed down some pad ... of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different

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

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... outside world as they are at MIT. I learned the charming way to shake hands. I learned the charming way to waltz. At night, I went to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  pair of pointy slipper. Him walk over and squint at Grunk. "Huh," him say ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  good. I burn through that stuff at the speed of light. I think my body is ... lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here. The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... .lab[/caption] At the end of week 4 is the awards ceremony, because web.lab isn’t just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Minesweeper Monday: Episode 3 the wait is OVER

  

  posted the first episode of Minesweeper Monday, which some have called "the most important piece of media in the 21st century," and which others have ... , January 13, 2025, the entire readership of the MIT Admissions Blogs eagerly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  little something more than this at the bottom of my Verde's cup♪   ♫I ...   a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  your work done - at all. But it does bring up points of interest. The ... getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that now it has become you know, a staple part of our day? - Hey whatchu up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  full swing soon, and for East Campus, that means lots and lots of stuff in the courtyard, which temporarily becomes a sprawling playground of 2 ... tail end of a hurricane last year unscathed, but it was much weaker

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to ... teaching classes over IAP. I've also acquired a pair of skis so I can now

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  way. Like watching 6 episodes of the magic school bus. Like exfoliating ... , without the routine of classes and classmates and well-defined goals ... 's no way around it. After a couple years of getting comfortable MIT gives

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008