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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  away. My friends and I had journeyed across the Harvard Bridge into ... unicorns-and-narwhals awesomeness and my ... I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp. Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It ... good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  background. I got an 80/100 on the first pset while all of my friends got high ... 'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  conflict (my friend Swapna once took 7.013 and some conflicting course 10 ... straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my ... bucket of ice. Since my lab's ice machine has been broken since, like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  friends to gnome game. My protege Joy is something of a prodigy, achieving ... About a week ago, I was ensnared Google Gnome, courtesy of my quasi ... ). She's been playing for about a month, while the rest of my roommates

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me, and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story ... which I destroy. My friend Keanu Clark ‘23, who I deeply admire, wrote

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  showtunes. I love karaoke, and periodically my friends and I will watch and ... that I didn't do my work at Cambridge, but it meant I could focus on ... other topics with my supervisor, and I've gotten a lot out of doing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight, waiting for my next class, and then an info session, and my tutoring job

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé ... that said ‘hot sauce in my bag’ walk by and thinking “where do they find ... eventually become really close friends with.  They also visited Chocolate City

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  This is a post by my good friend Claire, she's an insanely amazing ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my ... : Avoid rejection! It had been around two months since my supervisor and I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  work aren't always great either. Sometime last weekend my friend ... very interesting to read. So today, I thought I’d try my best to just tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country, I made good friends from MIT that I wouldn’t have met otherwise, my ... work per week and others 50. Recently, one of my amazing friends attended

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ’t stressful, just the way MIT usually is. I met my best friends during ... having fun; my friends and I were particularly fond of going to Briggs ... weekend, you’ll go somewhere to do something fun (my year we went to Cape

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  home of my friend Andrew. Before I chose to come to MIT, I was nervous that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government ... in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  -planetary species. My friends and I joked that the cars we saw on our trip are our ... people travel to western Europe to see cultural or historic sites, my friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now, but I should probably just stick to my stuff.” The milk carton probably wistfully figured, “Gee, life sure is comfy in here with all these new friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  one. For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending my evenings singing ... , weekday hours, and so I fill my newfound spare time with other things. In ... enjoyable experiences with friends. [carousel image1="66327" image2

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021