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• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza ... speech in (a free trial of) Final Cut Pro, which was the only video editing software I could find that allowed both reversing a video and speeding it up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... representatives (because who wouldn't want to work for a cool company like i ... we needed to catch to get to iRobot. But then we couldn't find the bus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances ... route to finding a place to pset. While giving me a very energetic hug ... wristwatch time from A to B is minimized." 3:01pm "Metrics in general

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... . During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  relearning to find meaning in the way I approach things. I put a lot of thought ... lot of classes, all of which sound so interesting. I am trying to find a ... , all in very beautiful ways. I went with Nora to a poetry reading by

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... 9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... this over and trying to find a framework of definitions and priorities ... worked way too hard in high school, to a point where it was actively

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just ... extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  at my mom,  sitting across from me in a coffee shop that caters to ... happy that she came up with a way to make the wheel spin which we used in ... money to rescue dogs from the pound. “You were aware of issues in a way

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  FOR CHAOS In the week before CPW, I made a list of interesting events to ... too stubborn to ‘waste my time’ eating in a dining hall rather than at an event"]failing to acquire food several times in a row

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... to use the remaining summer time to fall in love with the writing ... stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... , and I went to sleep. However, a pulsing pain in both of my feet kept me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  e d ! ! ! ! 8) Allan: I went to a freind's housewarming, and in true ... stuff! In no particular order, here is a list: 1) We went on an errand ... graduated last year came to visit for a weekend, and we had brunch at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  times, all the rooms for the teams, permission to put a device in lobby 7 ... . My favorite thing about going to a place like MIT is that you tend to ... good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  'll find a bunch of stuff only available to admitted students, including ... , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... wise: if you're flying in, book your plane tickets early (You may want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  as he talks to Cami, softness in his eyes, a slight smile as he talks ... first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... illustrate it, but I thought it would be a neat challenge to illustrate it and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... . You’ll have a place in no time. Anxiety: Okay, but what about that ... month of work for 6.009, dropping your A to a C, and you still felt

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• 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 ... and, dare I say, interesting. It was a LOT of material to get through ... in one), but there was a lot of legal discussion and things like that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  enough to spend a few years living in whatever random city before moving to ... employed somewhere, that I will need to find a place to live and pay rent ... to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... see, we're a cosmopolitan bunch! If you simplify this map to color in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014