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• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now ... last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... silicon membrane, and BAMF! Cell phone power! My friend Jacqueline and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  struggle my way through writing the essay, and I think there are some ... into the overall community. (I think my friend Becky is one of the ... .) This leads me into my next point. I ended my last application advice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... example, my friend Jake got a terrific room his freshman year at the East ... rooms each year), but certainly not unheard of. My housing at Baker House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  All 42 cheeses I tasted in college i am a cheese enjoyer

  

  Throughout my four years, my friends have hosted multiple ... the cheeses I ever had in college. my final cheese rankings Vintage Gouda - has crystallization, taste slightly crunchy at times. This is my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  here all my life, and I know next to nothing about American football. The ... , so my lack of football knowledge is embarrassing. The Alabama ... defeated Auburn in 2014, the largest kid in my class hunted down every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  colony to chase the mountains, I ended up embracing my own inner penguin ... trip with my big in Chocolate City, Ugo, last year, so I decided to keep the tradition going and brought my CC little, Jayden, this time around

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... it."]genius[/annotation]. I also met some pretty neat people! My ... orchestra didn't even have any drums! Only [annotation note="which in my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  This winter, before arriving at my [annotation note="Global Teaching ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be ... , where I got the first stamp on my brand new passport! Afterwards, we

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  finishing my major (which is surreal), but it's also a mindset change that ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I ... 've really wanted to take a robotics class. Robotics team was one of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  , so we got to present a poster! Considering that this was my first conference, and that I got my registration fee waived, I was stoked to go. [caption id="attachment_102081" align="aligncenter" width="400"] My

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  this: I got a lot out of writing about my experience at MIT-- the ups and ... am happy to have had the chance to share my garbage with the world. If

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  iteration. I met with my team this weekend to finalize our design: the moon ... .671: Measurement and Instrumentation This is my final core MechE requirement before 2 ... 'know?"]December.[/annotation] One of my close high school friends does a lot of art, and I'd been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  starts (in my case, when I was packing to come to Orientation!) I've gone ... and I actually think they stand up better than my MIT application essays ... that, so they will live out the rest of their lives only on my hard drive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had ... ?" I scrolled and scrolled. "Here, I've got it," Ajay said, taking my ... ." "My rap name is Flavius," Wenjun offered. "No, it's not," Lupe said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  . According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three ... happening in the background so I was slightly losing my mind. It was very ... . Plus, my friends Deniz, An Bo, and Grace are in it, so I don't have to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  sounds fun. Most people only get to take one.   I read the blogs my ... rarely manage to leave without machine oil or grease on my hands.  All of ... ’t want my identity to be tied to any school, let alone a dorm within it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... night with my friend Paige L. ‘23 (Harvard). It was my ideal Friday; such ... white powder. It was both my and Paige’s first time visiting Dear Annie

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note ... with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  've never actually done anything. still, i heard from all of my friends that ... . so i decided to accept one of the roles. i hear from my friends that ... , the thing that they do most is rehearsal. my first few rehearsals were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... available to answer them, my colleagues on the communications team have ... days before the deadline, which I have posted below:   I submitted my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020