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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a ... gotten a nice result, but my postdoc Albert asked me to run the samples in ... . One day my sophomore year, I was working with the mice in the basement

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever ... friendship would be a bit toxic and codependent <3 Needless to say, she’s my ... ="112863" image3="112864" /] Celevator is my home elevator as a resident of C Tower

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  course of an entire year. I was a GEL1 my junior year, and I am now continuing the program as a GEL2 during my senior year, where I help mentor and ... in leadership and maybe even running my own company one day, so the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  each part of my life since I left this school. Too bad for you if you are ... Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living ... get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  part 2 of using my art powers for chaos. So how do you give someone the ... happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few examples of the poor souls who sacrificed their dignity for my creative

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  Happy Year of the Tiger! It is my birth year, which means that I ... describe my life through the coordinates of semesters. I don't know if I ... in my mid-thirties. Maybe I will be married with children. Maybe I will

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  compensation, newfound freedom in class selection Last April, I declared my ... was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... . The bars did indeed twist and stretch, and so did my psyche taking the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  plenty of free parking (oh the naivete). One of the "cons" on my pro/con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year ... " food at my local Olive Garden, not because it's good, but because it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  decided to walk to Trader Joe's to do my grocery shopping. There's two ... strong and I had to unzip my fall coat. The trees have finally changed for ... . It was such a perfect start to my day; in this kind of weather, MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  leave campus until I eventually realized that I barely leave my dorm, let alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me ... the right too! This was my favorite out of all the pictures I took

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... transition this year. Plus some of my classes are “frontloading”, which ... external) screaming. Overall though, I’m super happy with my schedule! Here

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  materials. Items are not posted directly to your MyMIT account from Naviance ... the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to follow the progress of ... can submit an Interview Conducted Form in MyMIT so we know to follow up

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  written here is from my own personal experience or the advice of others. If ... ” award – Walking around is, in my opinion, the most enjoyable method of transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  prospective students.  It was supposed to be about my first time celebrating Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... across the Mass Ave bridge, as I often do when I want to clear my thoughts

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  unconditional love.  It was enough to slightly thaw my frozen MIT heart. (just kidding, dogs are my favorite animals in the world and this would be a ... they are oh my god Speaking of finals, you may remember that I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  guilt I felt when I said to my girlfriend, "I'm so impressed that the ... seconds later watching it fall as if my words made it happen. And I ... that my boy Paul Sloan was a victim. RIP Paul, I dropped by the memorial

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  My first week at MIT was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!  There was an ... Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns ... world.  My counselors are superheroes with all the cool things that they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  eve of the '12s graduating and after having one year to condense my ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my freshman year (officially the largest room in New House, although my mom

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  Okay, so I'm sort of cheating - I already wrote this post on my ... fully intend to have the time of my life too. But I need your help! What ... can convince me that that's the best use of my time I'll think

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  ’m like - HEY! That’s great! And then I remember, the public library IS MY ... - safe haven? All of these consequences are fast-forwarding through my ... become obsolete like a floppy disk. I can hold my reservations about said

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011