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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... into a snowbank while taking pictures under the yellow cast of the street lights. Simply put, we had cabin fever. I'm a California girl who hadn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  teacher is speaking in French. Only phrase known in French is "Je suis un ... ". 12:23 PM: Group digresses to discuss whether a third nipple is considered a disease or not. 12:24 PM: Group is laughed at by recitation TA

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  still a thing?) or your school is like my high school and has finals the ... (this job is so convenient!). I decided to create this post as a practical guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... Summer We did a remote UROP and Frolicked in a VR lab Starting in ... a Bad Thing. Luckily, we got an email about UROP openings in the MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this ... , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... from time to time - our door is almost always open. If you're not here in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... . And there is one really, really cool thing you can do on chalkboards

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... audio is all a cappella sung by the Logs, and was recorded and edited by

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... they all thought he had gotten into a fight when, in fact, he had just ... how in his first teaching job he taught a class where only one (or a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a ... Bank, where I held a brain in my hands and then watched a cutting. It was

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  court cases in American history. The professor was also a great lecturer ... .5840: Distributed Computer Systems Engineering A distributed system is a collection ... ; instead, a massive network of computers communicate in order to serve

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  -cooked oats. It goes way faster in a pan than a pot, too. Perhaps the thing to ... a river — that was magical. I texted some friends about how hiking is ... in America. The first gate, I ran into a group of people herding sheep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... peers, and she/he won't get into a good grad program. This is also usually ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  -threatening but faaaar more common than losing cabin pressure is having a flight delayed indefinitely. Even in the rare event that the airline is giving out ... shot of passengers sitting at the gate. "In the event of a change in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alive and In London Updates from the Road

  

  Currently writing to you from the London Apple Store. Spring Break has been a blast so far. Once I find free wireless, I'll upload the real entries.

  • by Bryan
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  miscellaneous shrubbery and nondescript store fronts whizzed by. We were in a new ... very first stop in our weekend vacation. I had been the one to suggest a ... Young Krystal, probably bawling in a corner somewhere, and had to call her

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... world is a double-edged sword. You get to be around some of the most brilliant and inspiring people and the sweetest research, but you’re also in a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was ... a spelling exam.” “Is that what it was?” “Yes, Mr. Concord, it was ... the folds. A cloud of tiny creatures coated the sheets and blankets in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  confers and also a place like MIT needs. because the rest of the world is in ... that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  - AMS is like 21H (a regular history major) with a special twist. --- It is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010