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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... .") In essence, you’re asked to squeeze your entire identity into a couple ... college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... that rotting in bed alone is a privilege, not a right. So to distract ... probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I ... mouse immunology lab that works with proteins in the cytoskeleton to see

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... hold everybody in the admissions office to that vague decade-old promise ... your EC now, because you might get to have an EC plus a bonus fractional

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  sums of several hundreds. It could get crazy in there and it wasn’t hard ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  somewhere? And the 8 ivy leaves (haha, get it?) our beaver happens to be ... . [All photo credit in this entry goes to Jeanne '13 - thank you, Jeanne!] ... most recognized rings in the world but also pretty much the single item

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... time. We have this and many more measures in place to keep ourselves

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  acceptees to MIT this year. Congratulations! In order to ready the potential ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... , prickly to handle, and hasn't evolved significantly in the last 30 million

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just ... time. I would get back to the dorm at midnight and collapse on someone

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  for everyone, and we pushed through to get all our dishes in downstairs ... to get the tradition going early. For our first Floor Frosh Social ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  Subject Tests in Math and Science. Q: Should I rush report my scores to get ... sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will ... .Please be patient when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  getting stopped in the halls. It's awesome, but I'm starting to lose my ... hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... least there's no more sleet. 6:05pm: I get a chance to upload some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... Bombers or the Cultural Houses in New House). The walls are more likely to ... math and science, never get in trouble, and do nothing but study all day

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can ... life goes on. But you don’t have to believe in all that right now. It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbdUPKD8ek"]revelation;[/annotation]I came in stressed out to all hell about ... far away from your host dorm room, or you go back to your room to get ... right for you. In particular, don't feel pressured to go to tons of events

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I ... perfect tie-in to my graphic novel writing class, especially since I don

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  once a week, I get to eat with the brothers whenever I want. Being the ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... of clubs whenever they cater Chipotle to their meetings Chipotle

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... suppose that's understandable. I have an aversion to expired dairy. In fact ... , or pretzels? Me: E, none of the above. Guy in Seat 17A (gets a cookie

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  in the Burton Conner TV room, but after an hour of failing to get the ... e d ! ! ! ! 8) Allan: I went to a freind's housewarming, and in true introverted fashion, quickly met someone to talk to while we began partaking in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018