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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  putting in roughly 40 hours of work a week for the past two weeks. And I ... . So far, I've spent most of my time working with cell culture in a ... various materials in order to make solutions of the proper concentration. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i ... neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... Panama. I remember pretty much none of it (including take-off) except for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  : I've tried it all, and I've been bad at all of them. In eighth grade ... requirements yet because I'm waiting until we're fully in person, but one of the ... because of the people, but I'm not submerged in all the baggage that comes

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... absurd amount of people using it (as Vincent H. '23 can attest to), I’m on ... [/caption] CATEGORY THREE: SHENANIGANS Part of why I was inspired to write this in the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The ... dorm I live in) is that every year we have a couple of residential ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  so silly. Pointless even. When I arrived at MIT in the fall of 2009, I ... still a week of late nights. I can't comment on sorority recruitment ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever ... beginning of freshman year - and run through it all :) ~*~ Part I: Pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  -altering growth. Over the summer, I fell in love with the idea of building something ... in this place full of opportunities and knowing that I failed to grasp ... what I hear instead is “King of Boston to king of the world.” All I can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... , totally worth it. A little background, with a lot of parentheses: I just ... you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  students genuinely engaged in my workshops. I even gave away the majority of ... money! (1/17 - 1/19) I decided to make a stop in New York City after ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... cities in the country, with amazing architecture and interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot ... in the story. I've watched about three seasons of Dimension 20 so far

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  can't say that I know the location of any in the surrounding cities. 3 ... four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  . All day. Every day. Part of the problem was that I was taking this ... + cups of tea. I was taking one of the most notoriously difficult classes ... than fun (as a result of unanticipated circumstances), and I didn't make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  and blow her away in a hail of discs, but I thought any move would ... playing in it! One thing I really love about 5th East - when those of us ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... sexual health in a way that is honestly unheard of in a lot of places. We

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  interested in the job, I might just get thrown in with the next cycle of hires ... -scholarship =/ I was at one of the summer programs, but my RA said that MIT in the ... . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006