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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  public place in broad daylight. There were people around. I won’t go into details because I don’t feel like it. In essence, the situation did not play ... myself. That wouldn’t have happened if I’d been smarter, I thought, if I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I ... concentration (Philosophy, which could easily become a minor with some work). Don't ... I had my heart set on. There isn't quite an experience that could ever

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  eyes, and I couldn’t think. My heart was pounding, and I felt slightly ... Emergency Department room. Curtains don’t separate it from the countless other ... gone straight to college. Therefore, the question wasn’t really what I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th ... , you don’t need more. Give it away. Living out of a 38-liter backpack taught me exactly what I need and what I don’t. Much how extra stuff weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  in Cambridge. Since hitching a ride on a pachyderm isn't always a ... walkways (because they don't exist), any sympathy from people who live in ... doesn't use just your feet) is your friend here. There's so much ground

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don't ... 've deserved; I was being ridiculous about the entire ordeal). Failing tests isn't all that bad, around here, and completing 65% of the material isn't all

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  (if you haven't done that already). Then walk back to Little Italy and ... . Normally I wouldn't actually do this because I'd be too busy or just not ... Google Maps's sidewalk-free bridge ended and couldn't do it. I ended up

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to ... I don't think it's especially common or encouraged.) When freshmen

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on ... wasn't planned, especially because I still have six hours of exams to ... basically a debit card that doesn't collect interest. You put money on your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  units above - isn't really the best idea. (Neither is doing 60 units ... AM chem lab on time. Meanwhile, you don't have a definite housing plan ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn't

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn't patently obvious by now, that you don't have to know much about computers to ... Sapolsky's books A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  . The words "too many irons in the fire" don't mean much to us. We like ... someone has a problem, we can't stop ourselves from helping. There is no ... helpfulness doesn't extend only to MIT students -- if you come here on a visit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... /sugar/salt solution (7.06). You won't absorb water without salt due to the structure of your kidneys (7.20), and you won't absorb salt without sugar due to the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  hadn’t finished. Nevertheless, I think all the time that went into it was ... I didn’t have time. Or I didn’t make time. I have been wanting to make art and write for so long, but something always comes up. I don’t know

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile ... I saw a very COOL, but rare DeLorean.What surprised me most wasn’t the ... hadn’t missed out as much as I thought. The setting was different

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't ... . Special thanks to the [annotation note="I don't regularly drink anything caffeinated because I don't like the taste of coffee, I usually prefer

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... that time watching Please Don't Destroy videos [+50 aura] because my ... dinner with some of the crew at 6 p.m. It wasn't until three days later

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  writing and editing this, I realized that I don’t really miss applying, I ... while reading this blog, this isn't entirely true, and I just want to make ... I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  people appeared vibrantly open-minded, and the vibes felt so sweet. i hadn’t ... and didn’t find written words to be the best medium to get them out, so ... ]https://youtu.be/0T71nlHRdFQ[/embed] ninety-nine years ago, ec welcomed its first ever

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same ... extraordinarily dense interview. I didn’t get through all of it, and I don’t think I ... even a century later; I guess some things don’t change. Her sentences

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023