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• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... you know what I mean when I say that I was kind of like the walking dead when I got home, only minus the drool. And when I’m tired, I have kind of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  MIT I consider “successful” and the semesters during which I accepted the most help from and collaboration with others. Freshman spring: I ... became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... . Allan: Wow, this is actually super apt. I literally just turned on Ghost ... : These “I dont know” conversations have been about both of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Tool was REALLY fun, and even though I can't sing to save my life, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... ). Wonderful? Out of this world? No, the question is... Can you SURVIVE??? I ... MIT's motto is IHTFP - “I Hate This F***ing Place” or “I Have Truly

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the blogosphere. (I still really like that entry, it's definitely worth a read if ... ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer ... people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the ... me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the zodiac signs lining the circular room. “What’s your sign?” I asked her

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  on the blogs. This semester I took 3 [annotation note="Humanities, Arts ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no finals for these classes. The unfortunate drawback was that I then had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  It's September, school has started, and I know that before long I'll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I'll get ... entirely, I'm taking this time to recap what I did for the past several

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  decisions portal already."  Eminem About 2 separate times last year, I ... -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags ... is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... Room. So there I was, walking down the street, minding my own business, when I saw this mean old biker gang beating up some poor elementary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  low on material right now. [Editor's note: Um, by which he means that I have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... MIT, I've worked as a UROP on two research projects. Freshman and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I ... -19 restricted MIT campus. To clarify, I don't actually need to live on campus. I am not an international student who the Trump administration is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius ... handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who ... workshop, and, even though I can’t speak for anyone but myself, it felt like ... give you an idea of the things I wrote, here are loose descriptions of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and ... house. Yay Sarah! After stuffing my face, I burned off some small ... : One of the Literature department's concentration advisors I've been a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... the knowledge that if I horribly messed up, at least I'd be able to no ... washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  tell me about your research? Al: I’m having a blast! My current ... medicine for my taste. There are times when I seem to make no progress and I get jaded out. However, when I actually make significant progress, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... the mines content, here's everything I have from then: One week ago

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025