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• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139   INTRODUCTION ... ropes, medicine balls, and floor ladders from exercise stations cycling around the room, MIT students collectively sighed and picked up their

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... general. Relief, freedom, and possibility overwhelms me, feelings that were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... . Laundry is $0.75 per washer and $0.25 per dryer. You can pay for it with ... owns and maintains a small exercise room for residents. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  good hopes and  Imaginations of the universe,  Digits, letters, and ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  thrive in a cook-for-yourself community. H offered up some kitchens and ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Luke Plummer

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the ... are 4 of us!" So he rounded me, Keri, and Jess into the frame and had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  is like a little universe, and every time I listen this album never ... I like music. A lot. And I like telling other people about the music ... to [insert mildly obscure musician here], and their random album from

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole ... ordered a $288 Chinese New Year party platter in the Singapore Cafe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I ... my possessions crammed into two suitcases and a million tote bags

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  has to offer and talk to professors who do everything. (I talked to ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and ... super excited, or kind of nervous, or maybe you've already comMITted and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  (the one in the United Kingdom, not in the United States where MIT is ... ’m doing a [annotation note='mit international science and technology ... electromagnetism and [annotation note="graphene is so cool. basically, it's a novel

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine ... on the spot and then schedule it to get published right after. I ... down and watch more Hermitcraft after this, so yeah. This is pretty much

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  does involve a commute ranging anywhere from 20-25 miles - and that ... of 7:30 and 8:30 am. Thankfully, there's an incentive for my atypical early bird behavior. The fare, both on the commuter rail and in the T

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually ... , and tried out several new restaurants. (My fave is Rangzen Tibetan, if

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  reintroduce myself and talk about life post MIT at MIT. I graduated June 8 and ... my research and being able to continue looking at unanswered questions ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ”. Short of having her come to MIT and feel the fabric herself, there was ... to… [annotation note="Synthetic materials like polyester melt and smell ... of the question, given that they might be made of real silk and my mom

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly ... , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019