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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small, neutral red letters. Immediately…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they hadn’t been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture halls) for the weekly…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  . For now, however, I have 14 meals/week in the dining hall, where the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  It’s the night before your organic chemistry problem set is due – although, at this point, “night” is probably the wrong word, since the sky is turning a funny mix…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was Delve, an AP preparation course run by…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  The four questions I’m going to address: 1) “It seems like the food availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it’s just…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So…remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had “tryouts”: we took a shot at playing every instrument…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working for the…

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I’m a drummer. You probably knew that, but you most definitely didn’t have a gratuitously-added picture – in which I pretend to twirl a drum stick…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  such a big family. (5) Exhaustion - I've had to endure three 14-hour

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  challenge of comforting a 14-year-old girl who had lost her healthy son of six

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  on the 14th. Woo! I can be tried as an adult now! Anyway, I've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  neuroanatomy class (9.14), a developmental neurobiology class (9.18), a systems

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a rockstar. Hawk Cam Have you guys seen the hawk-cam yet? Funny story - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  because I have a test on Monday in 14.21J JENNIFER ALTAMURO -- I am sorry

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  keep going" mode by mile 26. At 11PM, mile 52, after burning 9 ... in the mid 60s and bottom out at noon. Then I run 11 hours with zero

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  and staff Perused the MET Strolled Central Park Visited the 9/11 ... for the long drive. Google Maps said it would take 11.5 hours but, with ... . This morning, we checked out at 11am and headed on our route home. Our

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024