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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... (happily, the dust has settled quite a bit since then). Mid-May found me on ... sure I'd ever be able to get any work done. I went on a student-led tour

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical ... 'll be reading Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig on my overnight redeye (or are those two things mutually exclusive?). Catch you on the East Coast

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  interviews and information sessions set up on campus. But undergrads don't have ... somewhere to be in 45 minutes. I looked inside the new reading room and, you ... been there twice before, just because I'm never on the 5th floor of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... 'm going to see MTG's Star Wars: Musical Edition on Sunday, so I really have to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... 'm thankful that there were more TAs than students in the lab on Thursday ... . UROP -2.5 hours on Monday -2 hours on Thursday -First half of required

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... on the roofdeck. Boffing is very popular at Random - well, it's popular ... , both those on meal plans and those who go over to hang out once every few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  prototype: However, we wanted a device that could easily be put on any shoe ... can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an ... just Java) and made this: Blue/yellow circles will flash on the foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... 't. 10:32 pm: I once tread water for ten minutes as part of the MIT swim

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  budget your time. In high school, although I could be out working on the ... cannot leave a bike unlocked for more than 5 minutes (this was during the ... for literally 5 minutes to go get something. Fortunately, I recovered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... finish that one pset. Don't skip meals to study longer. Don't miss out on ... 's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle ... Marriot on Whalley Avenue. After settling down in our hotel rooms we went

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t ... probably depends on the friend group. tiffany is someone i went to middle ... a project"]senior project,[/annotation] where we worked on building a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  this one on April 2nd. Of last year. I was looking through my blog drafts ... got around a 96% on an exam at some point in my freshman year, and that was when I peaked during my MIT career. A grade that high on an exam was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We ... what happens, the show must go on. You have to maintain composure and ... around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with excitement and optimism. We're recharged to take on the semester again, excited ... weekend, and [annotation note="Or 3 if you skip your classes on Wednesday

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  reaction on that day. Now, how about a proper introduction?  My name is ... and hours.  I've mostly focused my research in the past on biodegradable ... remember being exhausted on that pi day, because the day before I met the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  different jobs this summer but I definitely decided on the coolest job ever. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the ... "Team Stealth." We spent about 3 days working on our bike and it ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  2-minute drive is simply too far. Anyways, after visiting a few schools, we hosted a central meeting on Wednesday, 9/17 at a place called ... throughout my time in South Texas (and especially on this drive) is that people

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  'd yet to navigate on my own. At the ticket counter, I said goodbye to my ... , I was working on the beginnings of a burgundy beanie that would keep ... me), and what floor he was on (3AB, a few doors down from my room). He

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... last year, i was too busy studying and organizing and last-minute packing ... .032 (differential equations), and wgs.303 (history of gender). what do you do on a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025