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• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... would smile and laugh a bit. I'd stare at the corner of the screen where I ... succeed, at the expense of never being able to fail. So this break, my goal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... paint at Blick's art store, a sentence which hides a significant amount of deliberation over the like seven kinds of acrylic paint you can buy at Blick's. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My Unusually Long Prequel to Sophomore Year Soccer pre-season and rush!

  

  day of classes! As a fall athlete and sorority member, my time at MIT ... super exciting as I was meeting a bunch of new people and future friends ... to our first official game of the season at our lovely home field

  • by Lauren W. '29
  • October 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... something new; every second of the day a slot I needed to fill; I wanted to partake in everything new that I could, to funnel all of this energy I had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... something new was really nice. that wasn't really a lot of things, but it ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at ... topic for a lot of students at MIT, and that's because everyone has ... months all of you prefrosh will shed the "pre" (presumably through the use

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  a LOT of new ~culinary experiences~, and I've gotta say that going out ... 't play any of the arcade games because I am not good at them, but the vibe ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... Sarah O'Connor was one of my 5.12 professors at the time, I stayed after ... with a grad student at the start of the fall term. Since last semester

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  . My first article on the implications of the new Internet domain names ... architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least ... nitrogen ice cream at Random Hall. Now, I'm going to highlight some of the ... take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying! Movie! Two things I do significantly less of when I’m at MIT is drive and ... . Working at the front desk of a dorm means you meet a lot of residents, help

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  records in central square has a few cases of $1 records at the entrance, but ... every row of knitting, i'm better at maintaining the tension that i hold the yarn with, and i'm better at keeping track of how many stitches i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of ... backpack it went. Hardly was this inconsistent with the Way of Things at MIT ... along the lines of “Free ___ and ___ at (some place within a 5-minute run

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those ... four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book ... [/annotation] [annotation note="the cliffhanger at the end of the second season REALLY KILLED

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• 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 Bon Jovi press play, then scroll down and sing the new lyrics  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  Hi, I'm your second new blogger, there's Keri, and then there's me. You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006