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• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... have frequented since I had the intention of applying to MIT, I suddenly

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take ... is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  Explanation: ‘Signal-to-noise ratio’ is a measurement of the strength of a ... ’ refers to the size of something, and is often denoted as the absolute value ... intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  , which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... bookmark hanging on the wall of Colin '10, since Colin '10 is like Sam's Mom ... on the basis of the above picture I decided not to use flash to get a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  exams and/or stuffed on a bus or the back seat of the car on the never ... mumbling to his 13 grandkids, "Youth is wasted on the young." In this post I ... . Try as you might, it is impossible to account for all variables or know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  - planning events, brainstorming ways to make the events better, that kind of ... moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a ... . The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can ... Celestrium (which is a non-precious metal that's really durable.) The gold ring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  work on research for our project or plan and design a couple of things we ... 'm going to NR 8.01L. The final is tomorrow. I've touched a little bit of the ... intelligence. But that's hard. A lot of this is hard. And finally on this long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living place. One hour after I get there, when I sit down to work on some Problem ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  , MIT is going to split my mind open. My vague appreciation of how the ... ’t ultimately hinge on a letter of acceptance or rejection. Very soon, in a blog ... sense of happiness right now, the eighty-five or so Taylor Swift songs on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  ) stew And of course, students! Trying to float their boats and Will ... part of me REALLY misses MIT. But heyho two more weeks on this island ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  of us that I want to solve before we launch in September ... students better understand the really-hard-to ... is something I've been thinking of as "MITAdmissions Labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  of my time". i could be getting new clothes, or working on my personal projects, of which there are dozens, or writing blog posts like this. i don ... 's basically been my life these past two months or so, which is why my blog posts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  blogging cohort left, which is completely insane. i think i used to post a ... ) "i tend to end my posts with a vague statement of hope, and this one is ... one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the contemporary campus. This is not that story. Instead, this is the story of how ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... .   Ahead on the left is the Media Lab. The arch just to the right of the ... running (5-ish am to 2-ish am on weekends or midnight-ish on weeknights

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and ... , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012