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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  class (which is a requirement for biology majors and pre-meds.) The class ... opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... for (several) pictures. By the way, in their free time they model for AT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... someone who actually knows you. for the same reasons, I’m also more cautious ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me ... ! A for effort! Now, we're sitting on the plane from Panama to Quito ... visiting her home in Ecuador for the first time in 2 years. She hasn't told

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

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  "]fix this either,[/annotation] so I was left without the grade cutoffs for my ... ="didn't happen for my class anyway RIP which is why this post is a week later than ... she was right. So instead of doing more work, I went outside for the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  !) Question: What is the transition from high school to MIT like? Academically ... the norm. Keep in mind that first semester freshman year is on pass/ no-record. It is meant to level the playing field, so that you will succeed at MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  wonderfully well is when I got to the boathouse for rowing practice, the daily ... was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and ... from the first 8.01 physics test, thanking all the powers that be for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  , but I ended up enjoying it a lot. The course is a psychological overview of what happiness entails, but a significant component of it is the ... document my thoughts from each section. Writing things down is the most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  closed and many people off campus, the usual hustle and bustle is gone. It ... and culture. But for the most part, being away from family and home, I ... taught children to spring from the blue-colored cement roofs onto the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  logged into an online page for my Electromagnetism Class and saw the p-set. After staring at the problems for a couple of minutes, my mind folded into ... however is roughly the size of Seven New Yorks, so extrapolating over the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... can’t help but be impressed all over again. This is the sight that ... appropriately for the holiday. A 15 minute delay in the meeting time allowed for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  University. Our studio class met at the T station to visit the site for our ... of the night writing that paper. Today is Thursday. Thursdays always ... recruiting all majors is small, the list of companies recruiting Course 4

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school ... : Architectural Design. The overwhelmingly popular concentration; this is what ... '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... . CES is the Mecca of the technology world. It’s a trade show - not open

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  units." Checkmate. The victor's sub sandwich is up, he grabs it and ... the amount of work they had done for a class--"Oh, I didn't even bother studying for this test" or "Ha, I just wrote this entire term paper the night

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  prepared for an amazing time, complete with the prospect of little to no ... Speeches, etc) - but also feel free to stray a little bit. The point is to ... about life, go for it. 2. Make sure to check out all the dorms - Every

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  stalking. They meet for dinner, where conversation is forced and trite, and ... offers Mirabelle a chance at real love. Her decision between the two men is ... for it to come out on DVD, that is, unless you just did something really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  beauty of this place is reason enough to be here – but the actual purpose of my visit to Anaikatti is to work at one of the tribal hospitals in ... position and had no pulse for a good 40-50 seconds. He said the likely cause

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011