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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle tomorrow if I didn't split my ... wearing a sundress and flip-flops, which I wasn't. I got home and started ... 1950s, and I don't disagree. There are seafood restaurants and mini

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... book and a complete set of notes won't give you the actual answers. As ... mutants, but you can't (because they are inviable). Your boss challenges you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  the Financial Aid process. Don't let your child fall into this trap. Here are a few myths/traps. How do you know that you can't afford MIT if you haven't seen the financial aid package? Raise your hand if you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  entry. Don't go to China Pearl; it doesn't have a shark fin. The first ... University of Georgia t-shirt. Unfortunately, it only takes a moment to crash ... apparently opines that "if you don't go right back in the water after something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  on campus. but i’ve found, increasingly, that memories don’t work that way. i’ve found that memories don’t often fall in orderly queues aligned ... , simmons, faces vassar street. there isn’t much reason to go around the back

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  ? Yep. We don’t have a magic coating that makes us fireproof, which means it’s hot and will burn you if you screw up. The fire isn’t any less ... trip. Isn’t it dangerous? Of course it is, but so is football, and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college ... -Marathon in November.[/caption] For various reasons, I don’t want to specify ... public health. Then I decided that I didn’t really want to keep pursuing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but ... fall into- that moment where life doesn’t seem quite as exciting or ... , I can’t help feeling like my world is smaller again; I’ve already

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  first 6 minutes of the game and we don’t score for the rest of the half. If we don’t score, our season will end.  For some reason, however, it never crosses my mind that we won’t pull through and come back — and I am

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  year"]haven’t played the game yet[/annotation], Ultrahand is one of the ... , and why don’t the rotations cancel each other out anymore? To explain ... unlike multiplying numbers (where the order of multiplication doesn’t

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  so hopeless. I don't know how to process it any more than I already ... realization that "processing" doesn't necessarily mean poring over all the ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/3bKEXrfHQjjrT01AQLpm9J?si=351accc022b2457c   ---   This

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  [annotation note="read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group ... sign-offs, regardless of the context. I think you can't go wrong with ... ", but people (probably) wouldn't bat an eye at them. Sending love to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  . I couldn't bear the feeling of my room anymore. I was ready to be at ... another person enough to say "I can't do this on my own right now," and ... said I would. In hindsight, I wish I hadn't let myself reach the point

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My ... . Just look at him – isn't he so cute? [carousel image1="83282" image2="83283" /] 4. Chalk art Although we can’t paint on the walls, we can use chalk to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  ids="79240,79241,79238,79242,79239,79243"] I actually didn’t know that ... until he started listing things that the factory doesn’t produce. Suddenly ... cream soda I couldn’t believe my eyes – surely it was just some animation

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  red brick and marble, Corinthian columns, old-style decor. T-shirts that ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of ... own jargon, too, though it doesn’t seem to have as much. On the first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  anyone know about the problem. But I didn’t. Almost every time I left the ... surface, it seems like I care a lot about hiking. But I don’t particularly ... course, that isn’t to say that there aren’t virtues of “settling” — the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really ... little more wary and a little less [annotation note="To be fair I don't ... allows me to jump around so often, I can't help but feel I've thrown away

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  , but I didn't like EDM enough to warrant going for several days. also, Miami didn't seem super appealing since it's *the* spring break location ... flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  , which means I don't actually have to do the work for the class, I can just ... Olympiad over IAP, just because I really felt like I couldn't keep up with it ... doesn't feel like I'm doing much at all, but I'm also doing so much at the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022