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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  I haven't been as buried as my fellow premed Chris S., '11, who ... assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  So a couple days ago, frustrated as I was by the fact that I wasn't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and wander through the videos on my computer. I'm sharing a particularly choice

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  aren't nearly hot enough." "I agree. What do you say to refining the ... hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... you ask. I really found out about filk music through my addiction to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... wants to come here. I know, I know, right? It's true though. I know if I were you and someone said that to me, I'd probably have ignored them and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets. QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  I am born! (Or rather, my blog is born.) This is (virtually) my first blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT ... . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  , suggested that I blog about this. I feel ashamed that even Matt knows more about what's going on Taiwanese TV shows than I do (jk, Matt =p). But ... ), Janet Hsieh ( graduated '01 - omg, I just discovered that she was the FUN

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in on a secret: MIT Admissions loves you. No, really. I know the L-word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I ... SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl. Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  Happy New Year to everyone! As you may have noticed I've been absent from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take ... believe that I've only been at MIT since July of 2005 and this blog has only

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of one second per second: 1. I met Sarah '10, became friends, asked her ... school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... MIT gives us first semester on Pass/No Record means that I think most ... finals were on Monday, which meant I could spend all of Tuesday sleeping in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... were usually left with a mixed bag of news (it turns out I am incredibly ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... ” isn’t really “off.” We’re definitely still running, but the fact that I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  [Apologies that this entry is so delayed. I've been walking around ... I'm here now! ] There are some times in your MIT career when you ... , and you lose perspective. (Oh, calm down. It's not all that bad. I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009