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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far away ... show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the bus back. 2. I am back at the student center, conveniently without my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember having those same concerns when I got into MIT. (I didn't feel them when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start, and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was about 15 when I read "Giant Brains, or Machines That Think," a step

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

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of free family minutes. Today, I tried calling my mom, but there was no answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging, and I completely missed the presidential debate. D'oh! Tomorrow night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the sixth floor. 10:15 AM [annotation note="against my better judgement, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Harrisburg Update: Yesterday, I biked 20 miles with Ben, see? I ... ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that old! I only graduated 4 years ago, or 1 MIT generation ago. My yapping

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately, I've been feeling very unwhole. Stuck, almost. Every week seems to run ... , then you'll be around 10-12 hours. I've been essentially trying to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not sure but I found this really interesting Wikipedia article about weird

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

    i have a general color coding scheme: green are classes. they're pretty much the only things i've been putting on my ... interesting, but not mandatory. i may or may not go to them based on various

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  bio information I can give when I meet people around the Institvte ("Hi, I'm Danny; I'm a senior majoring in physics with CS classes sprinkled to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  And psych! Happy April Fool’s Day! I didn’t celebrate it in particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart ... time writing new short stories, I saw and spent time with my mom. I hadn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I ... subject, but if someone comes up with a good chemistry question I'll take a ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff ... -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  .01; Physics I)! 3 excruciating hours in an indoor track field - can't say I did well, but I was so elated just to finish. Right now: cramming chemistry ... ." Chris S: "My finals and I can write a bad romance." Hamsika: "Finals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009