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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  Hey, remember that job I got six months ago? I start this week! (I got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new group called "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet," which I found ... better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a day trip down to Montreux, Switzerland. I AM SO HAPPY. I've been a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... . On the lab front, this week I started writing a paper about the project I've been doing for the past year and a half. I started with the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so confused about the name of 14.41. I have heard it at different times called

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are the classes I took the previous three semesters, complete with a color

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  things that I had done for the last time that I hadn't realized. My last ... that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time that I saw some people, whether I realized it or not. I'm very attached

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the table?   Enter August 2016, Boston, Massachusetts. I take a taxi

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso, TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso and boy are my arms tired." (rim shot) But seriously, I have been on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in with Janet '27, Allison '27, Ellie '28, and Sara '28! I won by hitting 500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  i spent spring break writing. writing blog posts, writing things for our informatics olympiad, writing emails for the puzzle club. the time i didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i'm confident that it'll work. i'm only taking three classes this semester. three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a QuestBridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also terrified. I worried that I wouldn't get into any school. I spent that week

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  dedication of the self, and this naruto battle… well, i suppose you can ... that sharp swords don’t actually cut through dull ones. i think this ... doing so with me because i seemed to have many elements of both. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic ... "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman year, I lived in a double in New House. My side was colored yellow and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students ... as much time as possible with people. i'm most productive on my own, but i would try to study with others whenever i wasn't too stressed. i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021