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• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  and comfort, even if you're lowkey still in your TikTok fake vine phase ... general vibes and probably hold no truth to them whatsoever !   Plant ... a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  ...eerie and strange and still weird for me. I feel like a fake, in a way, with ... You'll recall in this blogpost I talk about joining Greek life and dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  breakfast sandwich and run across campus to the Koch Institute. I stepped ... Hi there. Today was an incredibly long day. Like running back and ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  Science Institute, so I'm pretty excited to declog my arteries and eat a ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... and tell them I'm just a normal kid who chugged two waterbottles before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn ... (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the ... ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  movie/drama/DDR marathon! So I found my friends Tuesday and asked, "Have ... evil physics test on Thursday!" "I am locking myself in my room and never ... Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  , for instance, that chocolate has six crystalline states and that heating ... chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about, appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  them all over the state, cut airfoils and constructed planes from scratch ... MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness ... why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  and become a better person and found a community despite the Institute ... with spontaneous trips, future-job-preparation stuff, and lots and lots ... shows while I was there, Allegiance and Fun Home. Allegiance told the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting ... seats in Congress, lead only 15 Fortune 500 companies, and hold a mere 3 percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  could chemically analyze blood for components/diseases), and us ... , temperature) and translating for doctors (yay Spanish!) These blog entries may ... was no cell phone reception, and electricity was only intermittent at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related ... change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  email a professor anytime to ask about life, UROPs, the universe, and ... .801 Political Science Scope and Methods, 17.803 Political Science Laboratory (the sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here ... " (hopefully that's enough stock material). We will be laser cutting and gluing (with frosting) and not eating the carcinogenic unflavored gingerbread :-D

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my ... strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... both the freshman admissions and blogger selection committees plucked me from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non ... "] Budapest looks weirdly similar to MIT?[/caption] It was over Zoom, and there ... tomorrow) to mid-May, and they will be all online. Through this program, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  universities I applied to. Everyone at MIT was so open and accepting of people ... this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time with 2024s and it's been an absolute joy. I somehow convinced the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020