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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... website: "Air in the engine is cyclically heated (by an alcohol burner) and ... stumbled upon some of their kilns in the Student Center. So, hurray, now I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... (maybe two weeks)). A small melted candle (which I would never ever light

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... wrote in a previous entry (er..I think it was October..?) about being ... in America right now but I'd love to go to MIT and it just seems like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  ), I felt like a kid again. There was an air of childlike wonderment in ... when I joined in, but we spent the rest of the evening, part of the plane ... accepted. I finished my very first crossword puzzle with Tara in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch ... building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... , that's almost as much time as I spent in class in high school! Hopefully ... - I really do mean it. A case in point: last semester, Melis and I ended

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I ... . Places I finished building my loft! In the fall, during the week before

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... ’ budget. I live in Burton-Conner, so I have the choice of enrolling in a ... eat regularly? I couldn’t splurge in Boston every night, and even the

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

  In Prison Literally

  

  , I went against my instincts and proceeded toward the signs. I would later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... traumatizing,” I said in relief. “Just glad we found you,” Lee replied as we all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  , I would read the sign on the table I was in front of and discover that ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60 ... habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... forced her to do that because I thought it would be a cool blog picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in ... ice cream parlor in America and I sprinted away into the snowy night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... one that left MIT. I'd like to think I'm more comfortable in public (and ... , and in them I saw brief glimpses of my future. They were settling in, as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... administration's view on it? etc." I would characterize MIT overall as being a very ... , which I'm proud to be able to say was the first state in the Union to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  Abstract Ring Delivery is a time-honored tradition in which Massachusetts ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... Rachel R. ’16. Accompanying figures were digitized using an iPhone 4 camera

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  consistently as long as i'm still in the game. my strategy is more or less to ... in the afternoon: i type this quietly in the safety of my room, without ... , knowing that they would probably be a good ally. they accepted, and i know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I ... continue to do this semester, but I hope you got the idea that summers in ... , and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005