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• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... myself. I learned about the difference between frostbite and frostnip. I

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  Nobel week is always an exciting time around MIT. Bryan and Matt have ... Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  programs in cell biology and/or neuroscience for admission in fall 2006 (partially so I can make everyone call me Dr. Mollie), and I just spent a great deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I did a comedy set* in front of 1000 MIT admits and everything else that happened at this year’s CPW opening ceremony

  

  retired to bed at 10pm and waking up to the chirp of the birds or whatever ... but secretly stay up till 6am websurfing and then somehow go to school 2 hours later and be fine. Instead, as a Young Adult who is starting to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  When I was younger and went to Disneyland [annotation note="Yes, weekly. My family had an annual pass since we lived close to Anaheim and it was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  for 6.009 and realized this on Sunday morning. From my calculations ... spiral and started crying really hard and becoming very panicky and anxious because this class has been hell for me and I couldn't do it again, I didn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  written by Pendleton Ward that follows Finn the Human and Jake the Dog and their adventures through Ooo, a fictional land with crazy creatures and ... , where he swore it was one of his favorite shows ever and insisted I watch

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  ."]Yesterday,[/annotation]after turning in my last assignment for the semester and celebrating my freedom ... this morning, and before I even finished a single paragraph, I went ... L. '22 and Derek Y. '22 to join and we head up towards a ramen place

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job ... . Because I’ll be asleep. Because I’m living somewhere between Boston time and Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures ... . '15 and Becca G. '14 organized a last minute spring camping trip with 18 ... this last minute opportunity to relax and have some fun climbing, hiking

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  productive, tiring and relaxing at the same time. I've learned that Python is ... long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all ... , and this seemed like the perfect solution. Plus, I get bored easily, and ... , silver, pink, and orange, but the orange turned out more brown and the pink

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I ... left behind to avoid their judgmental gazes. I've been running and running and running, eyes set on the shining lighthouse that was MIT, and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  prefrosh, and mine as a jaded East Campus CPW chair. The Build-Up [Ankita ... :’) Like a true #13, I spent hours creating and revising my schedule, and though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a ... decent part in Hack Punt Tool because it was about MIT students and you are ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed ... collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... , or whenever someone i knew joined twitter and acquired more followers ... occasionally those people will like your tweets and amplify them to a larger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... ’s green earth fill my little southern heart with as much delight and ... an American train and take in the natural splendor you can find all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... cheat time, and how everything since then has melted into an ... together and passing faster and faster, like sand in an hourglass falling, a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019