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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  EC and I walked back to MacGregor, where I pecked at work in my room ... .004 and my UROP code. I spent a lot of time in MacGregor last weekend ... study break for the potential GRTs. I can’t wait to play poker and meet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... lawn perfect for napping on, or my friends late at night, but I can enjoy ... gentle reminder to myself. I've been deliriously happy at this school, in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  , you all came to mean more than i can say. i graduated in summer 2013 ... in a few weeks, or in a few years, I hope that you can do that too." i ... into a unified person i could recognize in the mirror. as i grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  idea that the fish in my bucket are the ones I want, and I can't get ... from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back ... in attendance. I was in the room with the entire admissions Illuminati

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in ... .  Differential Equations (18.03) → Rank C Chill class in terms of grading, but I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  good for that, though I've only eaten at Lobdell once or twice in the ... more students to attend), and in that spirit, I must say that MIT is not ... two schools. You can't go wrong with your choice! To help, I've asked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... something truly serendipitous. Back in July, when I created the 2010 Blogger ... stuck in Beijing. "I've gotta beat them somehow," I said, in an impromptu

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... was in the comments of these very blogs that I remember a poster saying, "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  intentional change, those of which I’m currently facing in my own life.  I ... ’s important to see the people you look up to engage in self-compassion. I know a ... something, but only if I feel inclined to. In the meantime, I’ll be eating

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  knocks.”  “Wow!” I replied in joking indignation, but swiveled past him ... Multivariable Calculus exam. I filled in the solutions, turned in the sheets, and ... ’s moving into Alpha Delta Phi this fall, and I’ll remain in Random, while

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  even I forget this – mostly, in this case, because the grand prize ... , because the last time I'd been in any talent competition, it had been at my ... students are really quite good at the things they do in their spare time. I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  complain about how her hall's TV only plays in Spanish. I myself found MIT's imperfections when I moved into Next House (not to mention that you can't switch ... better than I can. Here's an email he sent out to Next Forum, our mailing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  much as I can to make it easier for myself in future [annotation note ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... November Sunday: I camped in the Hayden Library to crank out my essay. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... - I majored in Course 20 (Biological Engineering) and lived in Simmons ... blog posts of all time. In fact, just go read it right now. I'll wait

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 ... withdraw in fright. The one from the window was somewhat better, as I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... outdated, but think Galahad in Temple Anthrax. I’d recently brushed up on ... remembered them. I mentally ran through their main plot points, just in case

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  each develop a prototype of a product that can (and in many cases does ... .  They weren't just any birds: they were Angry Birds. In 2.009, the ... impressive industry judges.  I should note that 2.009 is possibly the awesomest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  direction. Obviously they are leaving the game, so I just need to walk in the ... desserted than I expected (ha), since I had wasted so much time walking in the ... . =) Keep in mind this is all after 11 PM on a Sunday! I got back to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... one or the other (I'm not referring to anyone in particular), but dorm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008