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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  fulfilled. Basically, my room is one of my favorite places at MIT, welcome to ... subject at a time. After taking tests, I normally go back to my room to ... the last exam was (just kidding, it's not always bad...just...a lot of

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges ... of our high school friends when we go home. :( But, this is because ... a UROP! I never thought I'd be joining the ~85% of the MIT population

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  : Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, your community, and your safety. You will not be penalized in the application process because of delays caused by major disruptions outside of your control. We try to be
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I ... mention of MIT was on CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08 ... . :) As the new school year begins (and '14s are arriving this week and next

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of ... by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of pennies in the month of December. Piles of them. Every single year. But as

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  charge in sun and give off ambient light displays at night. And speaking of ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I've seen a plethora of Project Runway ... vague wishes of becoming fashionistas, there has been little visible

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  stop. At the beginning of sleepovers we’d build a blanket fort, and then ... no psets at all to do, I picked up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn ... report that college has not squeezed the life out of my life (at least… it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  instead of someone who's lost and drifting at sea, trying to find a way back ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... ) peace with femininity, or at least I understand better why expressions of ... . Despite my best intentions, a lot of things went off-course this semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic (instead of waxing my windows, which seriously need more waxing than whatever ... pressing tongue of February into a sticky-sweet memory, bequeathing cavities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  buildings at MIT have an even side and an odd side. Odd buildings are west of ... day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  balls to carry to goals with a "ball gobbler" of two wheels at the front ... Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the ... with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... campus better than them? when i've experienced zero semesters at MIT with ... the sophomores who spent their COVID spring semester at MIT. i'm really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  get, a job, I learned a lot at the career fair. Many of the companies ... Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  line at about 10:40 a.m., there were about 20 people ahead of me. Ten minutes later, there were hundreds of people behind me. Apparently, I got ... :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  night of sleep for a long time. The next morning I met Sara '11 at South ... is probably impossible any time of day during any time of the week at ... were no longer little pictures at the top of a web page. They're real

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my work to my lack of self-esteem, because at least that, I know how to ... this Juanita of an open position, a medical technician or a nurse, at Allston or at Boston. I get maybe three or four of these calls per day. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021