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• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no ... freshmen to have time to explore and socialize, rather than being cramped in ... for when I do make good things. Independent Living Groups In addition to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months. I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  resigned myself to the fact that I was not going to get any information until ... gentle pinks and purples, and I knew I had to get outside to watch the ... [/annotation]at[annotation note='the actual result from psychology is much more specific to pedagogy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I'm special. Perhaps this year I'll get crazy and occasionally sit at that

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  first in line to get our posters signed! With our loot tucked safely ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  how to listen, to sit in someone’s joy and pain, and to navigate the ... changed me in ways that I hope will only grow.  Before I got to MIT, I was ... seriously in the professional world, I had to be literally serious and kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  go back to the student services office. “But then I would get stuck in ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... , of learning how to cook and work and clean and enjoy your life in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... decision, ran downstairs to tell my parents I got in, ran back upstairs, ran back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it ... last.  In fact, I’m really just amazed that we were all awake to witness ... now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ... scientific studies. About 95% of the work people do in research never gets ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that ... make breakfast for the girls in the house before they went off to finals ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was ... the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small ... that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write ... this, I was really worried to get back my 8.02 pset. You'd think that if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  them in the "Miscellaneous" category, and wondered if my posts ought to ... , pen, La Verde's bag, jacket, or copy of Mad in America to constitute ... later in the day. I considered turning to the reporter on my left and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  twenty bucks I’m not getting in.” “I’ll bet you twenty that you are ... just paid my sister dwarfed in comparison to what would be my tuition for ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed ... detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process ... system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware ... scotch tape and then used it to secure the drive in place. So far it's been ... the kickoff was about to take place. I walked in the door, and the very

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do ... ". In hindsight, it's tempting to be black-and-white, and say that you ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021