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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th ... it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... I visited MIT in the spring of my senior year, I picked up a paper ... think ultimately I'm interested in cell biology, whether it's of neurons

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  “Omg. If I get in next week, I’ll be easy livin' for the rest of the ... definition of the word, you failed to get in MIT – but you can never believe in ... ’t define us. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is one of the principles MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  Conner in the Class of 2024 Discord. Most of the questions I got about BC ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... . I'm a big fan of the "testimonials" section and even wrote my own, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  caught up in camp-life. I braced myself for all of the academic challenges ... perfect utopia. I think a lot of people here can relate to this sentiment ... years” with a newfound sense of panic and gloom. I'm in a different world

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  . Once in 66, you can turn to view an interesting room full of old ... ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  quadrupled in the space of no time, and I felt that I really needed a lot more ... them swam to the forefront of my mind, but I knew that the contrast in ... , challenges I found myself learning to deal with as time fled. I was part of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... also work out together!! One of the guys I'm living with is in ROTC and ... workin vibes[/caption] Words can't express how much I enjoy living in this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... team bonding events because I would stay in my partner's room most of the ... ready to graduate. in the case of my relationship, I had no dating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has ... Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a ... Google Form and asking Abby to dormspam it because I was too scared of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  LTI was probably when I caught a real egg with a pair of tongs. I can ... myself from having to be covered in egg yolks for the rest of the day. I ... take the studies I'm interested in to different types of levels. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  last year/beginning of this year, I feel really included in what is going ... It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... involves all sorts of stuff I’m interested in - wet lab, molecular biology ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018