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• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  . Will it be the sense of community and family of living on my floor, or ... ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art ... , cried dozens of times, and partied like the world was ending—because hey

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  of your freshman year, Cs and above are shown as a Pass on your ... on me and my fellow frosh. In the aftermath of our last [annotation ... on PNR,” they’d say, to be met with a chorus of denial and “shut up

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  so that people would stop commenting on my weight. And part of it was ... you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the ... I've been thinking about something since I left work today, and felt

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  first CPW, too, and I can tell you that the sheer quantity of options is ... there's no shortage of activities and information for you at CPW, too ... I know you've had a lot on your mind this past week, so I understand

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... ?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go ... collection of shoes, sweaters, shampoo and study fuel (AKA our weight in ramen

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  look like I was planning on coming home anytime soon, and I just wanted ... of the boat! So the hard part was over. I sat down on the side of the ... turns. I like to call them the Easy Turn and the Hard Turn. Obviously, on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  better, and on and on. To answer these kinds of questions, you first have ... meet other people on the west side of the dormitory I didn’t know, and ... “houses”. Some of them connect across and some don’t. House 1 is home to i

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  , watched some episodes of Law and Order: SVU (yes, on a Saturday night. Shut ... survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... Re, and HERE!. Of course, pollhacking is not new, as demonstrated by the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  out of the car in the rain and climbed on a yellow school bus, which ... and turned the heat on full (it worked amazingly well.) Both of our ... .   * * *   Raphael and I left Charlottesville after work on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ... MISTI and my buddy Chandler is doing a missions trip through Breaker of ... the Christian faith, serve the people of Israel, and be commissioned as

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  Orbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from Harvard and MIT to go on a cross-country bike trip (Washington D.C. to San ... of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  sometimes march off the beat of any drummer. And long after you’ve left MIT ... socially and academically. But I do think that this interpretation of data on ... with and spoke to Chancellor Barnhart on Friday. Robby ’18 was one of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  seminars on Special Relativity, Gyroscopes, and the Physics of Flight ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  walls with them, and it would look sort of like a beach- yellow sand on ... paint eventually. I did a trial run on a large sheet of paper, and came up ... nice and prettily painted, and she had arranged all of her books on her

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait ... -joke: unexpected and irrational enough to elicit the obligatory chuckle of ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  you leave home, a lot of things change, and some things you want to be ... student) and I actually bought these on separate occasions, and I think I ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  tripped home, amputated a pineapple, and devoured a slice of bright tart ... , wheat buns, six chipotle peppers, pita bread, and yuppieish bottles of ... bloom of forgiveness into stomach and heart embittered by 2.5 hours of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  strength, but rather on flexible response and the use of an attacker's own ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... . These remote hunters aren't always alums...one of our hunters this (and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007