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• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  storyline, in case you're curious - a freshman comes to MIT, keen to get ... , in fact, a song called "Hardk0re*"), but learns that there is more to ... Studying alone you'll find it rough But in a group you'll find That with your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  : Yes, right there, in all of his British glory.You can also take a bus to ... (read: I got buried in p-sets for about a month), let me take a few ... in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  sets in advance, so we traded between ourselves and tried to catch a ... forest. in the late afternoon, we headed to a nearby beach, which was one ... essentially a roadtrip to several dive bars around the island in an LED

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a ... face to face. as childish as it sounds, i haven’t gotten a hug in so long ... don’t find as much joy in the things i used to find joy in, that talking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a ... to learn more, there's always a place where you can jump in and help a ... than you'd expect to find at a place like MIT and they're all awesome

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  same, surprised to find familiarity in a place so far away. She told me ... wore all the time in high school, and a dress with a cut similar to one I ... stop sneezing. I lived in a space I was allergic to once before, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a ... just forgo the optional essay since I plan to send in a CD containing ... . Who do i need to contact if i am a "case" that needs to take the test in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more centuries—at the very least. She started working in a biogerontology lab when ... a sophomore majoring in physics. At MIT, she has done research in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  find it weird to take photos of a piece that is meant to represent the ... writing this blog post is a daunting exercise in how to talk about and ... = "I write this while looking at the Charles River"]b) VERY close to a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  applied to schools as a pre-vet major back in high school, so it was really ... Knightley), who's in possession of a valuable coin that is linked to a curse ... Letter to a Son About His Father: In 2001, 28-year-old Dr. Andrew Bagby is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang ... about funny dialogue in teen dramas Cami: A link to a crossword puzzle ... Cami: A link to vote for my classes and the blogpost Aiden: Normeo and

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

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  find that I’m trying to channel a me who’s not really me anymore. It ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  humanities major, won't it be easier for me to get in? A. Nope. Wouldn't that ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... things like this, but my boyfriend is trying to make me into a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  to be employed in the future. (And is a fully hardworking, productive ... room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my ... are much less likely to screw around while working. If you are in a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  motivation, and you put in a little time and effort, you’re sure to find people ... , you have to put yourself out there in a lot of small ways. You have to ... from the week and taking a nap in my room, but Kevin really wanted to go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  .5 hours before boarding starts Try to find a water fountain Wonder why ... latter. So if you ever wanted to find out how to do the airport ... online shopping Give yourself a pep-talk to write so many blogs on this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  navigating through a bazaar in search of gifts to take back home   ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  area schools and try and find a place to live this summer. ... semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011