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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and ... APPLICATION PROCESS, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR! I need a big favor! I am up to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  It's time for one of those "It's late and I'm up, I should throw crap on the internet so I feel accomplished" moments. Are you ready? Can you handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify ... better, you have no idea. I can actually work on all of my homework, and I ... fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  admissions release date can spiral wildly out of control. I underestimate your ... I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the ... propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don ... utterly listenable 51 minutes.Recently, I had the privilege and pleasure of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan Gruber received his Bachelor Of Science in Course 14 (Economics) from MIT ... elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006 he received the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  of my life for as long as I can remember. My first team sport was pee-wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have ... team in the middle of Colorado. Prior to crew, I never thought I could

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  applications is due in mid-December. Mid-December! I have plenty of time to work ... searching through thousands upon thousands of e-mails in Webmail (can you tell ... about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  . High levels of sodium in your blood can be deadly. Other notes: This is ... media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... " sound like in "beach," and I think it looks kind of lame. So I spell it ... Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... -weighted average of every location I frequent in Cambridge! This might not actually ... graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  ="64892" image2="64893" /] New House I spent so much of my time this spring in ... spent most of my time in our pod’s lounge, especially when I was working ... In the spring, I bought a polaroid, walked around campus, and took

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... . You can see in the picture where I accidentally skipped over it because ... tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the ... probably one of the greatest sports rivalries in history, Red Sox v. Yankees

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I ... . I'm discovering something about sophomore year, well, a lot of things ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... topic of women in engineering, and I might not have exactly the opinions that you might assume. In any case, you can read lots of other people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  through my metaphorical wings of adulthood too. I can eat ice cream for ... I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... ” (in the eternal words of Donald Guy '12, who, unlike basically everyone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008