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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  on campus! * On second thought, that second one is probably a bad idea ... ’t believe me if I told you’ serendipitous moments that make up a normal day on ... , travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that’s

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  apart, it is very apparent that my friends and I have all changed - a lot ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  , and fell in love. I sit now between the columns that support the mighty ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its ... mathematician, and I look for patterns in the world, yet I want to believe that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  great place to learn, see, and do. That is a fact that does not change ... -- SAILING! I officially start graduate school in a week pursuing my PhD in ... school is somewhat an apprenticeship in which you prepare yourself for a

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• 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…

  

  office the other day and had a chat with Matt, who said that if I liked ... , I was the only one able to go, which meant that I didn't know a single ... . Doing...actually, quite a lot, considering it's the summer. I have a UROP

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

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  engineering majors (do you know what an engineer is, really?), and a career fair ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the ... students who talk about taking "discreet math." Is this math that you do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... fully immersed in a cloud of good old fashioned cold symptoms and I wanted nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The con of such a lifestyle at MIT is loneliness. I am the only humanities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  As I start writing this, I have a midterm in exactly 24 hours. I ... of October, and the semester is in full swing. I still have most of the ... already. I was working hunched over like a little goblin in a cave with a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  -harvard pigeon pavlov hack? that one’s my favorite). the mit i now know is a world ... is cool. I've heard that MIT is unique in its vibrant but nerdy ... nerd, this is cool. I've heard that MIT is unique in its vibrant but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  one that I'm extremely excited about is Camp Kesem - or Camp 'Magic ... be teens! This is the first time that CK-MIT has a teen program - it ... raising at least $400. In general, I'm not that great at fundraising because

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  to. I tell him I go to Boston College. I do that when I'm feeling a ... located. Newton. Then, I search if there is a Trader Joe's in Newton. There ... stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• 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 ... have a relatively strong, loving friend group that I adore. They're so ... day. That was also the day I broke up with my boyfriend of one and a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  say Those three words, and that's what I'll do: I love you They gave him a small red bag containing what I assume is candy, said, “Happy ... Harry Potter series. I’m in Slytherin.) I’m thrilled that Professor

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  , I have learned through a friend of a friend that Molly is the only ... different from Ohio. That's actually a whole entry in and of itself... I ... /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  Archive is such a good series, but there are so many good books that I ... This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  run that I spent the rest of the evening setting up a computer in the ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I ... compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  to do next. Now that I've spent the last few years in "science," I ... about (I am, after all, a normal human being), it is something that I like ... "wearing blazers," but now that I've dabbled in those a little as a result of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  all in perspective, is that MIT is not an end but a beginning. I'm aware ... luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those ... have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005