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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning. You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... carved the general form of a regression equation. James '08 thinks he ... display this masterpiece between the 1996 and 2000 National Medals of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... the disruption of moving. After running around the lab like a chicken ... breakfast to go into lab early), I decided to heed the rumblings of my stomach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we ... -- it should be great, since I really feed off of the energy of large ... With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . Do you need a tissue to mop up the tears of joy you have shed from ... in my life that I experienced the feeling of IT ME. I have also been ... cry in the span of one post. Jesse ‘10, Keri G. ‘10 (another target of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... submitted a pset within five minutes of the deadline twice. Only twice, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  you are presented with a list of restaurants. The menu bar serves as a ... ." I "Viewed Menu & Ordered" The rest of it, well, if you care about ... the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... whenever you need it. You should also come by this CPW, to any of the ... (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... merged into one, in response to loss. the loss can be loss of a friend, an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  :30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly ... in situ hybridization) into an empty tube instead of first putting the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday ... I'm working on identifying the genetic basis of various tuberculosis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... around for a few more hours until the end of the party. and when everyone ... steam, and i felt zero motivation to work on any of the puzzles. this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  . Week 0 In the first week of the program, we were paired with another team ... so well. By the end of the program, our individual team would have to ... . Week 1 In Week 1, we began curriculum. At the beginning of the program

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  , oftentimes shoots better than some of the most prestigious military academies ... of the best pistol teams in the entire country just went away. 4 ... The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  any of the despartments?" So UROPs are pretty cool, or so I'm told ... it all very low-key for the actual day of Halloween. I basically ... me a hard time about my lack of costume. That said, let the tomato

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  It's June! Which means of course you're not interested in the ... [annotation note="yes I am always lurking"]r/mit,[/annotation] all of the ... sophomore year. This should take a lot of the burden off of your shoulders

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  couple of people grab lunch from Chipotle, we take the T to South Station ... card game"]play Fish[/annotation] on the bus. We talked about lots of ... lunchtime to look for my friends. Most of the high school friends I knew who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell ... Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  their time! Try to get your application components to us in advance of the ... Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006