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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things that you have accumulated over the past four years and may have forgotten

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our ... this year to take advantage of their always warm weather, and most ... running and lunges, with the occasional game of Gaelic football or ultimate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... as “squash and stretch” and “secondary motion” in the 30’s. Such ... to design robots. TOFU, who is named after the squashing and stretching

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... /26/mit.oil.robot/ And a few days ago, this article from Gizmag about work ... / Some pretty cool research and development being done - it's stuff like

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  and Science grad student who works on Grassroots Mapping, and Oliver Yeh ... bags, a commercial point-and-shoot camera, and some helium. Each rig costs less than $100, and will help monitor the oil spill's impact at a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  ! (where it's probably sunny now? - and yes, gummy chocos are pretty awesome, and your isef shirt is too :P) What's better, a Gummy Choco tube or a MIT tube? (The choice is obvious) And we have Lindsay S., from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  , and planning the Closing Remarks and Variety Show. After all the "day-before" craziness today, I thought I'd take a little break to relax and write a ... the Closing Remarks and Variety Show Saturday night. Details: Saturday

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  .735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS requirement, and my second writing class at MIT. 4.440: Basic Structural Design. Forces! Trusses! Flying Buttresses! For undergraduate and graduate students

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been ... have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo ... been to a Bruins game, but two of my best friends, Anna '08 and Maria '08

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  Andrew Lukmann '07 and Ruth Miller '07. I intended to write an elections ... talking at the debate, watched by opponents Dwight Chambers '07 and Chris ... my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  from UCLA (go Bruins!) visited last week, and couldn't believe how warm and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then ... [/annotation]--will stop this trip from happening), so actually leaving and having a life ... "]Mexico City.[/annotation] I love the architecture and the dense parks and the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  , lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but ... touched, and only knew about because someone else was sweating over it ... a while, and am glad it happened the way it did. I spoke in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student ... preserve its communities. For one, our murals are being painted over, and we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA ... Construction) - course 6's most time consuming and soul crushing class which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

   midterm, and the greatest pleasure in the world is ripping my glasses off ... off long hours of studying, check in with friends and fellow midterm takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  1, dove off my bed, and flung my laptop open. Gmail couldn't load fast ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The ... for 10-12 weeks, hanging out with astronomers and scientists and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012