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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... around in bowls of milk. One day I too shall be an old, one eyed cat who ... the original metaphor, I might be covered in milk now and out of breath

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to ... that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of ... the previous three years I was in MITSO), you better believe I booked it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... circadian rhythm into obedience. 9:15 AM I feel up all the avocados in my ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 3:30 PM I have a daily check-in for my Teaching and Learning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... blur together in a clumsy mess. Lately, I've been feeling a sort of ... musical roots to combat the negative effects of quarantine. In truth, I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on ... lunch. Still a work in progress -- I'll keep you guys updated.   ... the 8th, I flew into NYC and settled down in an apartment in Manhattan

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to concentrate unless I shared with you guys the most exciting e-mail I've received ... to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  What Bomb at Midnight in a refridgerator in the basement of E18. It was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  I can spend 16 hours straight in the shop soldering my PCB boards* and ... A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... ^2). She asked if I'd mind showing her around the 'tvte, as it seemed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... most of the false positives, and in the meantime I'll keep playing with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021 ... competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... I think at that point I was pretty much speaking like Yoda. In fact, I ... wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people ... inclusions: Wrapped in Red by Kelly Clarkson: I haven't actually listened ... pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... . Well we haven’t actually left the country yet, in many ways Detroit faces

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers and reasoning in the comments... just think about it; no Wikipedia! I also want your input on something else for 11.125. I need to sit in on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received ... midyear report. Q. Can I still send in extra materials? A. While it is too ... . Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005