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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  so costs me: I arrive for my 7 PM practice at 7:15. If I’m being honest ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  even imagine. The solemn looks that you can’t prepare for. The looks that instinctively stop you in your tracks because it doesn’t make sense for that ... fell upon a dusty ground surrounding the orphanage for Syrian refugees

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  , and it felt like I was seeing it for the first time. At the end of the ... enough. There it was: The E-mail I'd Been Waiting For. "I am pleased to ... Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us ... order to start the cycle again for sophomore year, we decided to transfer ... ’s rush 3) The newspaper article for the OpenMind::OpenArt Project! 4) A

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  : American Inventor Wednesday, July 25 at 9/8c "Episode 207" Time for America ... formerly the executive at ABC responsible for all reality programming ... : blog entry for wednesday? Date: July 20, 2007 1:08:15 PM EDT To: Matt Mc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... curfew or parental supervision - actually studying for classes - moving ... yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  strangers met at my blog for conversation, fun and intellectual discourse. I ... , you will also live in that community for at least four years. It did ... one will get hurt." (By "no one," she meant me.) For all of you who

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing ... a class for learning all about drafting and machine tools, and 2 ... write the code for the CNC machines: For those of you not familiar with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... ) or the suitcase record player that daniel bought at a [annotation note="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... began my job here at the office, and while I've learned a lot (a lot) over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have ... couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  shape myself into a better person. For now--one day at a time. Eat three ... lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  work for my brother I guess. So this morning I decided it was about time ... is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a ... 've only read a handful of books for pleasure and all of those books were

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  through Rush at all, at least for more than a few flashy events. Those who ... (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing ... of which is apartment hunting. Bane.of.my.existence...for most of this ... with decided to go to different brokers. We looked at something like 10

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  bake you a cake at CPW* after she kills me for promising this without her ... attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times ... and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  't have to leave this place for long... Friday June 6, 2008 began in the ... lined up properly for the precession (first by school (e.g. Engineering ... breakfast but the line was ridiculous. At 7:45 am (most people hadn't arrived

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  addition, the Operator is responsible for "calling in" answers. When you ... pretty rarely, for the record—we're averaging less than one an hour). So I ... practically non-existent). I realized last year that I'm a lot better at trying

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006