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• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  't surprise me if several of them were planning to go. At any rate, several ... umbrella when Adam and I go Christmas shopping tonight. And if the idea of ... you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  from home, where all of a sudden you are faced with a whole new set of ... of activities on campus and realize that while everyone is a nerd at ... of roofs or salsa dancing at a club in Central Square.) Basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in ... enough at it to really love it, but then the feelings of ~*~passion ... lot of time on. Start by looking at what you’ve spent the most time on

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with smooth grey walls and crisp, square wooden tables. The smell of fresh paint ... we're told to keep mum about the details of our internships. (I am at a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  pictures of the tube and card. Probably because they came at different times ... Following last year's tradition, here is a few applicants' moment of fame on the MIT Admissions Blogs- send me a picture of you and your card

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  person anymore I still will greet each new class at MIT with excitement. I ... most of the opportunities available to you there you will be at the best ... Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... at MIT is because the people who can do this kind of work take an idea ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  past week that showed me true meaning of "IHTFP": At some point around 5 ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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