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• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  when I walked out of my dorm to head to Physics I noticed something strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way towards physics and while passing the student center I realized what they

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  said whiteboard: "I hate everyone and everything, including you." -Keri "Name any topic and I'll tell you why I hate it." -Laura "I will kill you with a bat." -Christina '10 "It must be finals week!" -Ben Why am I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  So here's the story. Each year I allow myself to faithfully follow ... Tivo, bless you) means I can watch these four shows in about three hours, and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  until November. No no, today I felt I like a freshman, hosed for the very first time. Last night I woke up at 5:30 to put the finishing touches on ... eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... fun & games; I've conducted 2 Central Meetings (CMs) already, with four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I'm a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is ... I've been sapped of most of my question-answering energy... that or I ... I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... was true. The problem was, I told this audience of ~230 people that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  This summer, I became obsessed with climbing. Climbing is an exercise ... you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the wall. There's a foothold on my right that I could use to place my body

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  Personally, I have always considered myself a pretty social person. I ... and just kind of doing nothing but chillin. However, on the other end I ... very many times that I would spend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  Today, I accidentally dated a journal entry "18 August 2008". As I realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ... . Feeling old also got me reflecting on those 19 Junes, Julys, and Augusts*. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  There have been so many times these past few weeks where I've wished ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

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

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  It's late Saturday night, Sunday morning by Boston time, and I ... people about Life, capital L/eating way too many yams, and I've almost ... to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  student) and I actually bought these on separate occasions, and I think I ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love my parents equally, despite appearances, i.e. that one time my sister

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this morning before I have to run... Ariadne wrote, "The only thing holding me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... . the only times i actually enjoyed frats were when around 30 other people ... changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  This semester I took 21W.790[J] Short Attention Span Documentary ... for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage of visuals and storytelling. But, once the summer came along, and I was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  Birthday Dad! And also Happy Muslim Women’s Day! I’ve been toying with the ... honest, I didn’t quite know where to start. Do I talk about the Muslim Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021