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• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , I feel dead and lifeless."]I hate living alone,[/annotation]so in this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  'm slightly afraid of the person i would become if i lived in LA. portland is ... and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... -somethings than something-teens. i regretted not living in seattle instead of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  now. in some world, i would graduate from MIT, and go to graduate school ... will be okay. or in a different world, i would graduate from MIT and get ... would be feeling overwhelmingly sad and decide i am being ~cringe~ and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  , in the world of math, while I was deriving the equations for the heat ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... Star Market! And it feeds 5 people! Why would you ever eat in a dining ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a ... about that. To be willing to risk and to explore. I'm sorry in a way that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep ... ="aligncenter" width="346"] I was late for class that day 🙁[/caption] After 12 years in the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... question singular bold of you to assume I would ever go on a campus tour

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... accelerate the passing of time? i am in a headspace where i cannot fathom why anyone would ever willingly settle down, where i cannot understand why

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... many summers I spent in Grenoble. They had some fantastic vin de noix, je ... salad this side of July 14th. I erroneously added the raspberries in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  in scale was dramatic. I knew that it would be: when I solicited advice ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... in my seat as I urge players to run faster, jump higher, and save the ... would be France. I remember waking up at 3 AM to watch them churn out an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing ... in particular, and I do like making high-level plans to get things done, which is kind of generically useful. In other words, I've always felt

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a ... changes every weekday. GAMBIT Game Lab: Games created by MIT students. I ... on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not ... website right now. On the off chance that you no longer remember your ... . Our office phone number is 617-253-4791. With that said, I'm now leaving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the third week or so, which would make that test the “midterm”. I don’t like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first ... to do physics. I asked dozens of people in class how they knew how to solve problems and the only thing I ever heard was "In high school

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008