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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to Pennsylvania to visit my…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  't stupid. Such is the case with my beloved backpack. I pack my life into my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It’s the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due – although, at this point, “night” is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  are. It's true that MIT students sometimes make life nearly impossible

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  think about post-MIT life, but, hey, I only have 11 months left at MIT so

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  excited and had tons of great questions about life at MIT. I returned from

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  , turned out tremendously well and I jumped into life at MIT with both feet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  -esoteric applications of multi became increasingly irrelevant for, say, a life scientist

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  'easter is a big snowstorm and a virtually seasonal aspect of New England life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments. Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  Post continued from my last post. But first, an interesting remark: I said “BRB, homework”, and it took a week. That’s not unusual, for MIT; running into consecutive deadline after…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  entire life, and Mikel specializes in Bilbao, in Spain, where is is from

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  Some people think MIT students as sun-hating organic calculators, whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the mathematical set “inside”. But that’s not (entirely) true.…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  , “Hamsika, will you recite the two times table?” I froze. For the life of me

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  . When I'm not in classes or trying to have a life, I spend about a million

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  what matters - not only to this temple, but also to life and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  case of an emergency? And have maybe been used once? Something less life

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008