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• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  into a sprinkler while making an impossible dive for a Frisbee.) (I ... this summer: "Devin (another Spectrum '07) and I have been reading A LOT about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if you’re not the punter. My name is Lucy and I’m a junior ... -MIT Exchange Program for the 2007-2008 academic year along with 24 other MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... Admissions has a really great picture of McCormick: (from Admission

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  selection, when it will be too late for them to make a difference ... Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  )! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where ... an externship, some will learn a language, some will do research, some will build a Stirling Engine, among the many options. A couple IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... took a lighter academic load, two classes, so that I could work an internship during the daytime hours. I was writing embedded code for hardware

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  they’ve known each other for a long time. But instead of feeling excluded ... for a few hours and we felt great. But the puzzles also came steadily ... ."]Tagalog[/annotation] for Korean and Tamil for a Romance language. Thank goodness that Google

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  . I dropped a ball. I wrote up a text, panicked about it for 10 minutes ... 're looking for a sign to drop a ball, here's your sign. It's okay to drop a ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  friendful life recently

  

  my younger self for behaving that way. they just had a lot of growing ... unanswered for long periods. maybe it's a bit of a pride thing -- i can't let ... is a hotspot for birders!) joanna always being willing to grab lunch

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  "]Claire [/annotation] for a camp, and we had so much fun meeting some of the coolest ... , and for the first time in your life you will have closed a significant ... also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice ... admissions or read applications for a living (though I did ask someone who does ... ’s a grace period for that. But at some point, if a lot of your

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  a less morally-prescriptive framework for evaluating whether or not I ... . "Hey, thanks for texting me," I said. "Remember me when you become a ... Cafe Luna, a nearby diner. We talked about Lupe's course and came up with

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... rogue half-elf with a penchant for theft and a reward on her head :) i ... helping me grow as a dancer, which i'm grateful for. i've resolved to take

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four ... for. Not the hiking part--I like walking, I don't mind a backpack, I ... to go for a walk or get real food. If I didn’t love the world and want

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  -and-dirty method of looking for a mutation, the most obvious one being the sheer ... .) (Note: For the record, I have never fallen into or through a revolving ... previously looked at the study questions for about half a second, that is. Don

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  didn't make the list, for various reasons. Here are a few more lists of ... Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons ... this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  them once again for helping you with your college process. If they need a ... outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  lot of joy. for a while it was chinese webnovels, and then it was my ... for a while. but recently, it's been...nothing? i mean, i've been ... was such a huge part of my personality for years, and i haven't touched

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  what may be a world record for the longest five-foot fall in human ...   Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016