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• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  different topics from the broad field of genetics. This is a huge change from ... from all the other subjects I'm studying; a lot of the content in my ... ="'Maria,' from West Side Story!"]a piece I really liked,[/annotation] performed it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  leave of absence from moderators. If your academics dip below a certain ... housekeeping than take points away from my social life. As a result, I still can ... from getting my pirate’s license. A common pitfall though is feeling

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... rather harsh quotation comes from a blog entry entitled "Don't let it ... named because a railway president wanted his trains to be considered the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  with Edward, another ‘12 from a town near by mine. We met up at the ... . Quite a contrast from East Campus, a dorm I will visit later. But ... from the top of Baker is amazing. I just wish I had a better camera so I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  scarfing down bacon and coffee with over a hundred other representatives from ... . My team is comprised of myself, a graduate student from Georgia Tech ... and skim my notes from yesterday. My name is Anna Ho, and I’m a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  hand, netdecking is copying a deck's cards from the internet, and The Ron ... . Things I read for class These are all taken from 21W.765 Interactive Narrative. Going for a Beer (1100 words). Content warning: domestic abuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  of scene and meeting a class of interns from all over the country ... from my internship was probably a blessing in disguise. It was stressful ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  one cried, as we all gaped at him. "It seems that your students are a ... remember) here?" A brunette near the front of the room slowly stood up, and ... around her – I think that one lifted her up, although I couldn’t see from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  a leader) of a team entails. From aspiring to be voted captain to ... spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and ... playing a sport (or two) here and what type of adjustments being a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  they give you a UROP. Far be it from me to say what precisely physics majors do in their UROPs, but a list of helpful hints from the physics ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  ="973"] stealing inspiration from a friend to use microsoft paint because ... up is like trying to shove the boulder to roll from a standstill. If ... have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  from previous years; this can save you a lot of time when studying ... once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading ... you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  because I broke my foot a couple months ago from running (stress fractures ... Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out of meat?  Toss a watermelon back and forth in some sort of deranged

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  when I went from biology to EECS, but a nonetheless unpredictable ride ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At ... . (Though listings are far from the only opportunities available - if you

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  appropriate moment I yelled "LSC!" and got a reply from somewhere in the large ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First, pro wrestling announcer Jim "J.R." Ross spoke at a colloquium hosted by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  give the winner a college education from a top-rated school of their ... ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... aired last night. ABC describes it like this: The opportunity of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  included), I took a small dessert, bagel, or fruit from the dining hall and ... & Marley Spoon, BistroMD, etc. Here is a nice infographic from ... ) in Central Square, which is a 5-25-minute walk from cook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  rearranged them slightly; we also added a new "from the community" section ... .           Mimi S. '22, from Maine, is a ... ;       Jamie C. '19, from California, grew up in a town

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is an IAP post: what I did, what I thought. Which was a lot, on both counts, because my IAP was… very packed. I knew from the beginning that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  . It does give you a chance to see the Bunker Hill monument from a ... red pushpin marked it out for me. A walk back to campus from the ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008