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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  announce each session either the day of or the day before, and have a sign ... was one killer 30-point question about oxygen mass transport into the ... working on my calves. I feel bad because they can only massage 25 students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  semester course condensed down into 12 days. This particular course was ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th - January 24th) from 10:30am to around 1-1:30pm, depending on what we were

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm ... . Since I got that hefty 25%, I qualify! 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus ... start off my first day of my sophomore year with 21G.703, Spanish 3, at 12

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. - It's Sunday. We were woken up at 6:30am by very ... TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  ="my family had never owned a toaster until that fateful day ... set on a really amazing day in September, at Strand, one of my favorite NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... has a bunch of people that will buy a new system on launch day and thus ... * "Sweet, we'll get each other then!" It was an awesome start to my day. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  your decision as every day you look in the mirror and look like a slob ... bad tendency to stick out, making it look prickly and gross. a few days

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  Fall Tournament at Yale. I was really, really nervous for several days ... whole thing very patiently, and to my friend Maddie '22 who actually came ... thought it would be, perhaps because the road was deserted at 6.30 in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2020 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  Earlier today, we completed and released our decisions for transfer applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2020. You may access your ... applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are very

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  field day they know something is definitely up. At 5:30 4 boxes are ... is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11 ... 'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  Wellesley. Today was our first day of GELcamp (more formally known as Camp ... GELcamp and I feel like I’ve lived two whole days today. We got up bright ... Three Day three! Today was super busy so I’m writing this before bed! It

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  that i simply hadn’t felt until june. (i hope i’m not worrying anyone who ... this for a few days i realized i didn’t really remember how to take ... than that i felt inspired by jimmy butler’s 3:30am workouts (my times for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  be mad blog coverage of CPW over the next few days, so fear not. And ... June 8? Probably not. Am I upset about it? Not at all. One thing that I ... . Having never touched a pipette, today I work in a lab where we're trying to

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  . See what happens when you follow directions?! I mailed it out today with ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... , because that would make me sad. OK thanks. Have a nice day. =)

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design/Build/Fly competition, and as hats flew and hair rippled in 30+ mph wind, it became clear ... today--two speed missions and one untimed cargo mission--so that we would

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  every day with "meaningful" things. We're not - quite the opposite in fact ... these days, but we really want to know about the five things that meant ... /laundry list any day of the week. ------------------------ Long wrote: "Is it a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  ways and have trouble admitting that I'm wrong. Today, I found out that I ... to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... the D22 suite has a duck shower curtain.) 2. Melda asked what kind of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  actually enjoy it. Do I really want to code every day? Or do I want to design ... room, that's 30 minutes. What are some MIT things I can do in 30 minutes ... more than 30 minutes to comprehend what is happening. Drop a class

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  running; the samples ran off into oblivion. That was an ultra-trainwreck day ... Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a ... was pretty frustrating to realize I had wasted an entire day. That, of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006