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• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math ... , because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying ... + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can-get-out-of ... with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early ... sense of spatial planning.[/annotation] As much as I don't want to admit

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  about three weeks, so I’m cramming my remaining time here in the land of ... This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the world am I? Two days ago I won a prime cut of meat by winning a game of

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I’ve read in college so far (I might be forgetting a few, but this is most of ... more like 20, on my list, so that I always have back-ups whenever one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and ... compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  everywhere, and there was confetti. Lots and lots of confetti. I could definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I ... to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  excited about any of them. Eventually, I realized I was more interested in ... intention of nabbing as many free t-shirts as possible (33, in case you were ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  -recently-visited-by-Quentin-McArthur emailed me a laundry list of excellent questions that I could answer in less ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  manageable, but only if you are not in 10 other activities outside of classes ... the first three terms, I treated MIT like most upperclassmen have in the ... , not because of MIT, but because I had forgotten who I was. MIT became

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... systems. In it, I found this photo of Harvard Bridge from 1929: This ... handbooks, and I find a map in the 1959 version. Bingo! Of course, there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a ... angsty kid back then. I think the most common piece of college app

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... ’re Anne Liu ’08 (Course 7; iHouse). At the beginning of her

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I've already heard" in my mind. But it wasn't until this semester that I realized ... senior in high school, I used to be the kid who pulled all-nighters, just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... question, as at the time I didn't recognize most of the words in his sentence ... dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... the general store), I can still remember exactly how it happened ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  from last summer were more along the lines of “Woah, I can dispense water ... blissfully unaware of Bevi’s existence, prepare to have your day ruined as I ... started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  the problems of reality and fiction in autobiography and biography. K ... with an overview of basic themes and issues in Middle Eastern history ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010