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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... fun running up and down hills and looking for grammatical mistakes on ... instead of a suitcase. On our to-do list so far, we have 1. Roscoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  at midnight, right after which, I had planned for two weeks to visit ... Japan to relax for a few days before returning to campus. I briefly looked ... flipped open my laptop to work for an hour or so. I watched the power button

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner

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

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  people for 6.854 advanced algorithms, about online bipartite matching. and ... tested, and walk back. the other day a package for me was delivered to ... takes a while for the heat to spread. i've never had a bedroom this large

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... million possibilities for each minute, and you would go to every single one

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found ... really am not the type of person that would willingly spend the first

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow ... rooms for more than 30 minutes each term if they didn't have to run over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... the facts now oops"]she had to fix* those before the post was fit for ... quality? like, no, absolutely not. was it quantity? yes, enough for me to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  to having more freedom to cook for myself in future semesters ... has been even more difficult for freshmen, who have had to form ... that for me, my attachment is to my pod first, and only then to my dorm

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  novel targets in liver cancer cells for the siRNA to attack.  The UROP ... 's equivalent of the Nobel), and all-around nice guy (he's known for replying to ... Building.  That's because those nocturnal diurnal (what's the term for "does

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

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  and consulting firms. I won't lie; I really used to want that for myself ... finance, to each his own. I'll take my lab bench any day. Personally, my ... that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  (for his cars), a heliport (for his two helicopters). In addition to a ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  true to yourself, and rap is such an explosive medium that asks for so ... In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I ... therapy. I had survived. Untouched. Now it’s impossible for someone to ... summer. Things I wouldn't trade for anything. I had no choice but to slow

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... Africa, actually. As for the application? At first, I stressed about it to ... - it seems possible for her to double up on jobs and tell me which APs to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... together with other dancers to compute moves while walking to the beat, the ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... ) it's time for anyone who's interested in blogging to share your writing ... student culture. We pay you for this work. It’s a pretty good gig, to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  no different. i'd like to think that i'm an optimistic person. i hope ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  before. As far as the most popular sports, I personally would have to say ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an adjustment period, but for me, I personally feel very welcome by this community

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005