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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  sentences spontaneously run through my mind. Sentences like, “This looks like ... that I'm conspicuously irregular in my sleep schedule, and I say this ... determined that my sleep cycle was actually elliptical. Typically, I prefer to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  and found a postcard from my beloved high school friend Shana telling me ... my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  my first hackathon! I applied to HackMIT with my friends from my summer ... Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... dismantling freshmen’s assumptions that I have my life figured out. (I don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  amused my friend. My pecs protest violently when I try to press my hands ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... my Astrophysics pset (I typed up answers in LaTeX.) So, I doubled back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  who were going through the same. Calling friends while I do my ... about my experience as a transgender person at MIT. The one thing I just ... embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  organized by one of my friends in the Class of 2022. It was going to take ... faces and seeing my friends all dressed up. [caption id="attachment_72826 ... surprising revival. I’ll also share my experience going to two different

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  it felt like all my friends and everyone and their mom had gotten a ... , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... people threw around went right over my head. I felt too inadequate for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... Andorran system is actually the most recent! Why Andorra? Even my host dad ... , this was my first time teaching. I was placed at a school called the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  internship this summer. I've been seeing so many of my friends getting higher ... fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to ... of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

      Winter is coming. Oh, and so are finals. It's my ... [/annotation] taking uni finals, and I thought this would be my last round, but alas, I ... , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  was loving it. Back on hall, my friends and I worked and talked in the ... are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  ="many of my friends try too hard, and I am constantly trying to live up to ... for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... working for my previous company seventeen months ago, after interning there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  told the story of the day I had to save my best friend from the Baker ... my friends free themselves, follow their passions, create absolutely ... , and I have reproduced it, unedited, immediately below. I put my first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda. Our friend Luisa, who was the director and leader ... friends to celebrate their work (the few audience members sat far apart). It ... streets, hunger at the windows Women folding clothes, playing with my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  musical-loving friend Rukia, who we mentioned in our Waitress post, invited ... INCREDIBLE! Anastasia Music Videos "In My Dreams" really just tugs at our ... , especially the lyric break down video! Pasta A friend showed us this video

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  body (and your friends, and your grades) will thank you. Excuses are ... school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... exercise in learning HTML and CSS. LaTeX is your friend - except when it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to ... up with them my entire life. They're playful and cuddly and they make ... pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  happened to come across the Nature paper on a friend’s desk. He decided to ... looked for titles that were relevant to my interests and were interesting ... , and regularly exercise critical thinking. Karp referred to a friend who

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  be slightly sad. (My friend Avery '22 and I went on a Bibliological ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have ... each and every MIT library. Now I have collected my notes for your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  how unique the UROP program was until I started talking to my friends at ... stuff.  Or to quote my friend Connie, who actually did an AMA: "I ... and friends to gather to brainstorm startup ideas. This is quite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013