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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  trying to make me call them by their first names--one of my friend's moms ... I received on Dr. Tabacco's second test (my lowest grade at MIT for ... for you, but if memory serves my correctly, it went a little something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  , another thing I've done to put off studying is baking cookies! My friend and ... , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  being challenging. Another big aspect of this is my support network of friends. They really contribute a lot to my sanity some days. They really ... spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  Ceri’s vlogs, her friend’s jokes too), cheered at their accomplishments ... time was when a friend texted us, asking us about our decisions. It was ... told our parents. And messaged our friends. Had this decision come in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  Last Friday in my [annotation note = "my first-year humanities ... friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons ... ).  I felt like the Toyota Prius and I were fast friends, even though it

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school ... less the image of seasons that exists in my head. When it comes to summer ... , and I am disappointed in my time management 😅😭

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  This summer, I lived with some other sophomores from my living ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... properties, arguing with my future roommates, contacting dozens upon dozens of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  . My friend Zach and I formed a little team at the day care; during ... studying for a 5.60 exam coming up and my friend Nolan Kruse said we should ... able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  college and run off to the circus.  My friends and teachers told me ... I wake up at 6:07am to my alarm clock, which squirts water at me ... year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  am seriously considering it despite the angst of leaving my friends at ... the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in Virginia) to answer some questions. Props to my old buddy John (Caltech '08

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

    ‘Cause all of my enemies started out friends  which is such a CLEVER ... my favorites. My friends have started making this joke off All You ... of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  morphology, etc). I paired up with a friend from my pre-orientation program ... definitely confident of my ability to write. Then, I came here. These (high ... four of my classes have p-sets, and one of them, 24.900, has p-sets AND

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  It's been one hundred twenty-five days since my dad pulled up outside my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags into the way-too-big trailer, leaving nothing behind but my empty room

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  Last Friday afternoon, I finished my last final. I’ve never been so ... comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... ="aligncenter" width="700"] closing my 200 tabs[/caption] This time, I think I truly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  UFBoot does not converge, continue at least 100 more iterations My job on IQ-TREE has been running for more than an hour. For my UROP, I ... sequences of certain enzymes that produce QS molecules are. I text my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW ... In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  readers of the MIT blogosphere and all admitted MIT Quest Scholars, My name ... . Unfortunately, I forgot about the application deadline my freshman year (let this ... and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... !” – in the past month, but as a result, my desk at home has suffered. It was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  friend Akhil (who has the distinction of being the smartest person from my ... much Law and Order this summer?) In my various unofficial capacities as ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so let's see if this one goes  bit better this time! Here's my gcal ... that much of my time! My classes: 8.021 - Physics E&M; I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020