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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... will realize I want to do for my whole life. I know myself, but I no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  -day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to ... /or underserved backgrounds to apply, as well as students who come from low
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  even up to $30 to purchase supplies for Splash) to do whatever, and quite ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... teaching SAT (probably it was an opportunity to finally "get back" at ETS for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  Tina Fey and have wanted to see Date Night for such a long time. Tonight ... tons to say :) ... who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  for a single student. Last August, my family elected to not put me on ... providers for a wide range of well-priced choices. Now, since I trained up as ... like crap, they were able to send me to the lab for a blood test without

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  ~$8 it costs to eat out for an average meal, I save around $400/mo. Not ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... bike and having time to bake tons of delcious things. I do like how I have more time for myself here- which I think is really important to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of ... logged out of the Athena machine I'd tied my existence to for the entire ... semester, I'm looking forward to tons of sleep and a crazy IAP. Freshly

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  for us to read. I still haven't got around to reading about the storage ... course that all on-campus students had to take. There's still a ton of ... that, we're required to quarantine for a week - like, serious quarantine

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real world. So, I've begun to search for the perfect job to excite, challenge, and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  -cations to MIT every year. I remember what it was like to wait for Pie Day ... research at MIT for the rest of his life. Around the same time, John Dorrance ... new methods for preserving foods that reduced bacterial contamination

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  to buy christmas presents was not such a great idea for me this year ... price, and it turns out that this night they just happened to have ... Hindemith beat me to that by like 40 years), so I've been looking for a good

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  sustained anew) Leavenworth for so long: got back to Seattle, and boarded a ... way to Alaska! As for what happened there...that will wait for my next ... WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOG POST FOR A BRIEF PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6 ... staple course for anyone hoping to have technical interviews, 006 has yet

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  room to forgive Thailand Cafe for their unspeakable red curry combo ... I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at ... which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a ... have them. And, I might add, for the right reasons. This brings me to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  weeks before spreak due to the pandemic, and i've had no opportunities for ... , but I didn't like EDM enough to warrant going for several days. also ... someone's house there for free. enough people defected to San Diego that I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... back to the hackathon last night, we stayed up for hours, building the ... ’re probably splitting the bill, and I don’t exactly have tons of money to throw

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours to San Diego to attend TwitchCon 2022. Perhaps to no one's surprise, I ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023