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• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... August 20th, I carted my things up to my room on the third floor ... Jebby B. '25 (full joint post on that coming soon). As quickly as the wave

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at ... saying they tested positive, and when i developed a sore throat on the last ... test "huh," i said. "well, i'm probably depressed, but i'd need that on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in ... on one hand. maybe two."]unscathed.[/annotation] What could go wrong ... face burning up despite the slightly chilly weather, you feel on top of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... to read and pronounce Middle English, writing pieces on radio astronomy ... . This semester, he's teaching a class on Chaucer, as well as a class on C

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a meet that will last several hours on their schedule. Halloween the night before a meet? Save your candy ‘til later. Homecoming on Saturday night

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... contraction, but obviously even I thought of it slightly differently, if only on ... be as we know it today- what is it that makes it completely incapable

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ’t do well on most of them, unfortunately.  Grad School??? After going ... alone taken a practice test, let alone even known what is on the test. We ... SO amazing at making up jokes on the fly!  Escape Room We went to an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a ... more like 20, on my list, so that I always have back-ups whenever one of ... Again by David Foster Wallace (nf) (ran out of time on the library loan

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  room several times before gently returning it to its original position on ... around campus on a typical Saturday afternoon. Maybe she's named something ... history, landing on her left palm and her cell phone, which heroically

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  concentration on one beautifully hand made piece of artwork, an opportunity to ... little lead pellets as ammunition. My pellets sitting on top of my freshly ... out the letters "MIT" on three separate targets and decided to shoot

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  teammates, I saw the determination etched on their faces. I knew that we all ... answers. Four on one side, four on the other, verifying that all the buzzers worked. I was in the “captain” spot on my team, a symbolic position that

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it ... to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways ... Twists  I didn’t think twists would work on my hair because I thought it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  chairs in the overflow room, where the talk was being projected live. I ... genuine. I'm so happy that he is on the faculty of a place like MIT. Hearing ... dragged me out of my lab reports. The following costumes were assembled on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  learn, and you move on, but then you come back and help facilitate that ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High ... ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... underwater; I've been helping my friend edit his personal statements for grad ... folks again this time to do some research on the payload (science

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... ’ll be running the show on your own in no time. Just follow the link on the ... projecting Knives Out on my own just a few weeks later! However, I soon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  't get you into MIT on its own, but like anything else you may do well (research, play an instrument, community service, etc...) it can help your ... test, but on my first SAT I did not do this, because I did not know I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  've told that story before. What I want to talk about, is a tiny detail on ... MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated ... name stuff once I got to MIT. Questions like "Would I be allowed to live

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  -minute speech on one of them, memorized, citing sources. Decisions were to be ... building after this, and listened to "Connection" by OneRepublic on repeat ... March; as the cast of Hamilton sings in "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  money as possible.   out of curiosity, i click on my November bullet ... .   on a happier note, one positive aspect of my otherwise hellish ... chair sent out an email about what our living group is doing next year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019