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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... to keep me occupied. What are your plans for the summer? ... knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  posts about waiting for decisions and that kind of stuff. personally, i ... to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  evening to Sunday afternoon, for an ESP retreat. It’s been a lot these past ... of people for the better. I used to feel uncomfortable with the fact ... This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random ... . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of ... Line bus ($1.25) to South Station, where you should follow the signs for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  go abroad for college. Many wanted to come back in order to help ... questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  wall makes me feel old. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ... weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the ... was on TV: But if you aren't so lucky to be so old as I am, MIT's Age

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  working on fixing this, anonymous person who probably got assigned to Senior ... will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... Athena locker, the damage will still be done. So here's a lesson for you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  begged her to answer some questions for me, because while we have quite a ... bombers, we were already starting to brainstorm ideas for Hunt2008. "How did ... for finishing the hunt first is getting to write next year's puzzle) I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know ... to ask for an extension, and at some point figured I could nap and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... kind of passed out with A Prayer For Owen Meany open to page 89 in my lap ... up for the weekend. From there we went back to Joe's house with his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  didn't want to make it seem like I was judging them personally by vaguely ... caption for this was just going to compare the microbe-y cell to an I Spy ... setting up a blind date system for the microbes to get to know each other

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  have to take UAT instead. It's sort of painful for me, because I really ... afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It ... pace for me, and it's nice to go back to my roots, although I am super

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  for artists to hearken back to an imagined “simpler place and time,” as ... This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  internet we all take for granted. I also learned (somewhat) how to code in ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... they covered material that I had little to no exposure to beforehand. 11

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  to the form didn't work. For anyone. No big deal so far. No one ... special meeting for our class council to discuss what action should now be ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes ... ? Crystallography to the rescue! Admittedly, this problem stumped us for a while. We ... in 45-degree increments, which was completely unexpected for me. To

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  to create a rendition of TIM the Beaver for our signature class event, Twenty Fourmal. It seemed like a fun side thing for me to do and also a way ... Disorientation. It's a tradition for seniors to return to the place where they went

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  is assigned to someone else to anonymously send a personalized gift ... for some random household items. Andy happened to be around when I was looking for people interested in adding to my order and asked to add three

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art ... high-school I resolved to play infinite games. To find and fight for the ... work to get grants, artists get stuck in bubbles that make it hard for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025