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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... and I'm tempted to cross the room and hit snooze, it's like a little

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because he's the boss. And he pays my salary. I'm going to finish up a few ... to a journal (Morgan hasn't decided which one yet); the journal ... . I transfect the cells, which means that I get them to take up a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  I'm not going to lie; being a senior pretty much rocks. I'm only ... possibly a paper between me and graduation. Not to mention that my grad ... am no longer going to be a college athlete, I think I'd better start

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... in a while. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:21:31 -0400 [03:21:31 PM EDT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... ". But it's summer now, and, after walking a mile to lab, I mostly sit and ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  'm listlessly thinking to ask her about the force on a dipole due to the gradient ... delectable excuse to go geocaching with a low-precision car GPS that will ... weekend at pika, after waking up on Thanksgiving day to a house full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best ... ’m not sure that I would want to pursue pure physics research as a career ... I want to do… Foreign languages. Learning languages is a big hobby

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... started a nonprofit in our town to teach young girls math! “Challenge you ... it was next to Massachusetts. That seemed to ring a bell for them. Now

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my ... access to a Costco: it's pretty far away, and although an MIT shuttle does run there about once a week, you also need to have someone who has a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  @mit.edu. ------------------------------------- Dan wrote, "sry to just jump in as a complete unknown person XD, its ... , "hy i'm a student from Romania and i would like to find some information ... wonderful to see many mit students going to space.i have a great passion to go

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called ... , which were a quarter of the way to their full autumnal colors. Maybe I ... friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  .   there’s a lot to unpack in this building, so let’s start with the ... afar, you might be tempted to think that there’s a forty-story behemoth ... that you need a makeshift coordinate system to refer to each window (“the

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... cake withou flour. So, I had to apply to a college abroad, and MIT was my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was ... sounds, I was always used to being close to the top of my class. After a while, I intentionally strived to maintain that not because I felt a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a ... now have a place to live if housing costs go up. (Honestly, that bench

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  kind of conference I was attending. But when I told him I was going to a ... /she have to die?' saying, 'I don't know, I haven't read the book,' is a bad ... ," Jones says. It is, of course, just a book, and that's a fine thing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  , and a wireless mouse that used a wired mouse that connected to a computer that sent info to a 3D printer that had a wired mouse taped to its ... in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year ... start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I was the only one able to go, which meant that I didn't know a single ... LED (no joke). And, I'm happy to report that after a month and a half of ... for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to ... to you lickety split." I might also add that the MIT ID # is a nine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005