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• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven ... , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and file. Before that, I've been catching up on email and phone calls. This ... staff to get together and catch up. And before that, I was sleeping off

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  degree in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences with a concentration ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in ... and 1984, when Amherst Alley ("dorm row") was moved farther from Baker

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  studying, I'm on fire. But it's often hard to get into that state of high and ...     Winter is coming. Oh, and so are finals. It's my ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  Pi Day is a big deal around our mathematically-minded Institute ... , Koch Institute, Division of Student Life, MIT Dining. Meanwhile, the MIT ... student residences and clubs held Pi Day events as well. For a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  initiative and offered a server to host everything, as well as some individuals ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... this project had me SHOOK. I got Minecraft a week ago and had never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... year where I reflect about my life, and I think I need that :P Sidequest

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... would be too distracting, and any quieter spaces would only serve to ... the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  word for sarcasm and somehow, he still remembered it this year. I offered ... ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time with my wing  at next house, each floor is divided into two wings, and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  28th - July 29th: Camden Hills State Park - My friend and I basically ... student, because I’m not really sure where it started and where it ends. Did it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  school and college, but if you already have a bachelor's degree somewhere ... ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

   "the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything." It ... finances, health, lifestyle, and academics have been my responsibility since ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  adventures, I feel more at home overseas and traveling abroad than at home ... -up to a course I took last term called 4.S10 – Delhi and Jaisalmer: An ... country is most famous for – and so registering for 4S.10 was a no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , non-profit organizations, or academic course offerings in and around MIT ... MIT-France program offers both internships and study in France ... , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I ... information. One ballroom dance website had the lessons listed on Mondays and

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are four student-athletes, from the Swimming, Diving, Squash, and Men

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... college apps. Mentally, I had long since left high school behind and my ... college. I focused on my academics and used my free time productively

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016