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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Burton-Conner with loads of wash. Mitra used to say freshman year that at ... student center and cowered in fear of the terrible results. And at that ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... open space signifies an abundance of opportunities. The Charles River: My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  tables. At the very front of the venue was the chief of all the booths ... This isn't about cross-registering at Harvard. I was thinking about ... appointment at Widener Library, where they checked my government-issued ID and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings ... amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing ... organization I've been a part of since I first started at MIT. During my freshman

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  of really neat green corduroys at The Garment District. They were like ... shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  Seriously, I am really, really bad at not tripping and falling over things. My failings at life from the last couple of weeks include tripping ... whatever), and repeatedly getting caught on the laces of my badass new shoes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  are one of the most painfully complicated things currently at MIT. So ... , intermittency, and quasiperiodicity. Scaling and universality. Analysis of ... the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are ... within reach – even as we grapple with the emergence of new viral variants ... a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  Over spring break, I crashed at my recently graduated friend's place in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  Longfellow Bridge Newbury St. The new way to spell Greek food at ... , so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston. Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus ... offers shuttles day and late into the night around campus in Cambridge and
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  changed during my first year of MIT. I'm smarter now, or at least I hope I ... PSetted and danced to. I thought of the bajillion people I met at MIT and ... full of exciting new adventures and changes. But some things never

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  kind of a throwback to AP Physics C: Mechanics, with a little new ... of AP Chem and organic stuff as well, so it will be a lot of new things ... going to be a lot of new material. Everyone of my subjects, other than

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... to study at one of the most famous STEM institutions in the world. Yet ... reminded me of SAD just last Thursday. I was at the Massachusetts Science and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  like 5 hours of sleep from making my  [annotation note="Cell Biology"]7 ... exams before Monday morning; this led to some frantic texting of friends to attempt to acquire a copy of the practice exam and answers so that I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the Management Board, Microsoft Germany at the HaffenCity University in ... months. I spent one night at home, then drove down to the South Bay to compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  microscope. -A lot of looking at fluorescent worms (worms that has GFP - a ... thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... ; read: the first row of each economy "section" on the airplane. so much

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  . Without further ado, I present my expression of feelings for the first semester of MIT. Ode to PNR Pretty please Pass/No Record, how I wish you ... and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017