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• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can ... Everything else, I can take care of. Any takers? Anyway, since MIT Cable gets

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  didn’t die! I sped down Mass Ave, which can be congested enough in a car ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... waist, her hair flying in the wind while he turns the gas. I looked, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it ... the CS/math majors I know are in this class, including a '14 down my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT ... "LP" or any shorter name - I don't know why). If you live in southern ... bawled her eyes out. Her husband (my brother-in-law) and I made fun of her

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I ... really are! I don’t think I can do my students justice by just talking ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I had ever played tuba. I figured out that you can just not press down any

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... hours :) I thought I'd share the fun times I had this past Friday night

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... drink from that firehose and you get it done. I can say that this semester ... 'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... among dark churning waves. In tenth grade, I entered a writing contest

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  weld. I can set up in minutes now, steady and sure. Many more projects ... in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most ... one AC in the living room, under which I conveniently situated my desk (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  I can pop into unannounced, and I wouldn't feel out of place making an ... them seem to be very interested in undergrads -- I think they find us ... in Biology. I wonder if vocabulary will be a hard job for students who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  what you hear from colleges in the next few weeks, you can and should use ... skills you'll receive in college. I am confident in your abilities, and ... whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  when I auditioned for American Idol or whatever. But now? No. I can't put ... . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... !xobile Time: 12:48 PM Subject: long story I had a dream that I went out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016