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• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  large enough to take over a whole row of tables at meals. -- Like at ... really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... certain elements of the process. At the time, I thought it was a ... DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  far, it's pretty awesome. It's one of the few classes where I really ... lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... stretch at mit and being welcomed with opened arms the council of yuri ... little statement of hope at the very end. looking back at the endings of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... think that's true of most chain supermarkets. If you go at night ... I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  laughing at the absurdity of characters like tracey. adulthood is realizing ... are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be ... more powerful.” one of his implications is that if you have an ambition

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  to finally confront the question at the heart of the problem: what do i ... evolved to excel at. i suppose i should be more forgiving of myself ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab ... over at the several empty bottles of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  of what that says about our coolness it definitely implies that at ... , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  payment at the beginning of the semester or my overdue library book fees of ... posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... are available by the 10th of each month and balances are due by the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at ... you out of the way because they need to be at places. I don't miss ... outside. We go to a park at the end of the week and we have the whole place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  stuck on a pset problem at some obscene hour of the morning - watch out ... - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... meet 3 really cool ECs, one of whom actually teaches math at the same ... first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it ... couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first ... papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the ... hours of sleep than I could count on one hand. The other hand usually

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  communities and/or society at large. I ran into one of these opportunities a ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  and spinach salad: one of my first attempts at "real food"!   ... **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  needed drained every last ounce of energy out of me. At some point, I ... plantains at Hmart instead of bananas--it still tasted alright, though. For ... .111, which actually went pretty well (at least I think so). 5.111 is one of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021