Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  in 2009 (2010?). I can't tell you too much more without upsetting my ... buffalo. There are no buffalo in california as I write this entry though I ... . I've met more people than I can ever remember. My phone book has

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last & though i want to live forever so earnestly, my hands can’t mold clay &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of ... more importantly, my freshman year in high school I briefly dated a ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... working on my calves. I feel bad because they can only massage 25 students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... .org/blogs/entry/thirteen-things-to-do-over-iap-1-5), I spent the first half of IAP in sunny California where 50 ... , I was rather less prepared for the return trip. I flew back in jeans

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... . Longest. 7-8 minutes. Ever. I sat with my head against the seat in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in ... “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... of enemies in seconds. And the fact that you can build functional

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  anything I ever dreamed of encountering in high school. But that, I can ... . Sometimes, that may take more effort than others. But you can do it. In every ... 'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or ... animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  into words, I had slowly become someone who wrote with reception in mind ... produce, but you can control the reason for production in the first place. So as long as I can identify an intention for myself and be a 100% sure

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into ... in the BioInstrumentation lab, where I'm now the proud owner of a $45 ... , Craig, hasn't been around much at all this summer. I can't hold it against

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  ’s shoulders throw up in the port-a-potty toilets get in the mosh pit I ... expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I saw, pawed through band shirts that I’d usually find only in the back of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department ... in software development, art/design and civic media. I graduated from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... to fit in with. Coming to MIT, though, proved me completely wrong. I ... sleeping when Pitch Perfect finished (around 2), I stayed up until 6 in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... i’d ever heard, and the chords in the climax of permanent some three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... -person. but the simple fact that i'm in my room and not in a classroom encourages a listlessness that i can't banish, no matter how [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025