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• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... would teach me more science than I’d get anywhere else.  So I went and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  I’m three weeks into my MISTI, and I think I’ve pretty much got this ... , watch some Netflix and fall asleep. It’s mundane and boring and exactly ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  other words, the past three months were a completely new experience…and ... (quite frankly a little surprised) and 100% elated. This was an opportunity ... a city I hadn’t explored before, AND work 8-hour days with weekends

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  with a friend; we drove through Cambridge and discovered a mutual ... undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but ... MIT campus. We sat on a bench outside, munched on cookies, and discussed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a ... GEL staff and more than ten other fellow GEL students, in which we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry. Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its ... the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , you know that I have 6.003: Signals and Systems on Junior/Senior P ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are ... , a tenured and world-renowned professor will stand up in front of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  , and other activities I've done. However, I thought it might be fun to ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same alums' parties and talking. But I remember the first time I saw him. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  ’s effects, leaving faucets dripping to prevent pipe bursts and stocking up on eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially “closed” campus on Sunday and Monday, and Housing and Residential Services

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president ... Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  is beautiful stuff, magnetic flux tubes and reconnection and turbulence ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... and emotions I've had are actually broken down into these fractally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  , and since flights were also relatively cheap,  for spring break my friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... 't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... quite the same. it's experienced in shorter, more intense bursts, and is

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... the MIT Class of 2027, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... way —  muralists and mountaineers, locksmiths and lifeguards, baristas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the ... ahead and finally bought an actual laptop stand. it's way lighter. should

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not ... that might fit. But all I can think about is the things that don’t, and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019