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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  dressed, and collecting my books, an hour has passed. How did that take an ... . I tell him I’ll go after I work on it alone for awhile. I’m exhausted ... are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  motivation, and I thought I should go ahead and post it, even if I should ... it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of ... , but who really cares? just call it 2.009 like a normal person) and all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  presence. I love it. The club has also taught me a new relationship with fear ... circus performers and fire dancers even come out to teach — it's so cool ... . It sprinkled some fun sidequests throughout my semesters. For my 2

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  friend group did secret santa. It was very much fun indeed! [carousel ... I got all distracted and missed it :[] My keyboard STILL doesn't work ... EVERY WEEK on Thursday we are like "guys... we did it again" and stay up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  also like to share about the Assassin's Guild Patrol Saturdays, but it ... . How supportive are MIT faculty in encouraging students' ideas? What ... /etc. It also turned out that the transfer student had worked in the lab on a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  extent, but it is possible that you (like many others) worry that you can ... up and figure out how I would measure up at that instant. What I didn ... , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers ... of baseball trivia. It was like magic tricks. I could tell you ... video, analyzes the hell out of it" - Media Lab researcher Deb Roy tracks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  it conflict with the season premiere of Ben's favorite show, The O ... preventable." He added that no matter how ambitious the coastal engineering, no matter how innovative and well maintained, the systems of levees, seawalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... -competitive and cutthroat. A. Actually, MIT is a very collaborative place, and it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  shortly after, and it was so cool to hear how his MIT education still helps ... various artistic/technical aspects of animation, and how we have been able ... Media Lab! When we wanted to learn how to 3D model, Allan was able to go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  else piques their interest. But it’s not really goodbye. After all, we ... graduating seniors, Lauren and Julia, and we were determined to make it one of ... ’t imagine it being any other way. Of course, this solidarity is partly an

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... ) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... Ecuador, and in 1978 its Old Town was declared the first UNESCO World

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

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... . And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time ... get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in ... . From trying to do everything because of a fear of missing out (FOMO –– it’s

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... it a second thought, because it's just not something I imagined doing ... shabby :P But we'll be going in January...so maybe it'll be more like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  It was cold today. So cold. My dad put my winter coat in the mail and it hasn't gotten here yet. Wednesdays I only have 1 class. 8.07 from ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I deserve it.) Of course, with independence comes responsibility. According ... . It’s an uncontrollable reflex, I swear! Anyway, this whole concept of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  registration had been confirmed! i had no idea how i had received such a ... determined that santa monica studio (the place i work) had bought all of its ... that it's coming out next year[/annotation], making this literally the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  moments to address the elephant on the table - or, as it were, the elephants ... idea - just take that as a given from a native. It is. Bikes, however ... map (you can make it larger by clicking on it): Not pictured: moving

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010