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• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  had hoped that both of us would win (Mitra first), and then I would have ... Q was actually the perfect way to get rid of it and transition into ... and I arrived there first, regardless of how I constructed that sentence

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  've had a glass of milk since 1996 - I mainly go for the walk and perhaps ... , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the ... more, and the mental load of the pain push me over the edge. Big, fat ... and just take the bus, an uber, or walk. My calendar isn’t full of back

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• 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 ... than that, and spent all of Thursday grinning like a crazy person. The ... picking one to write about; while I fret, more pile up, and the Cycle Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  5's on AP exams (and have passed all of your first semester classes ... sophomore standing (to the grief of the director of the UAAP (academic and ... , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire apple pie and a whole bunch of delicious bread, then watch twelve hours of football until the insulin pouring out of my eyes from all of the carbs sends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... memorizing facts and equations (I recently memorized all of the world capitals ... such that we lost sight of the whole. A drawback of classroom learning I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  first round of revisions and sent it back to Penny. When she replied with ... the Deal of the Week so my face was on the front page of Publishers ... literary dreams; my editor, Jen Ung, and the rest of the Simon & Schuster

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  ’t know would be the first of many flights between DFW and BOS. We spent a ... glimpse of the world through his eyes, and I remember the first time I ... always think of it as the first step into my journey as a young beaver, and

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the ... summer and the entirety of senior year, making the best of my time there

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  toys. ElectroPlushies, his first push into the world of toy creation, are ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... their business. Here is a tentative schedule of the event: Tuesday

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  believe it. You can fail a whole bunch of tests first term freshman year and ... the going got tough. And the going can get tough in a lot of different ... and love you. (True story: The first time I got sick freshman year, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I’ve been attacking people at grocery stores and farmer’s markets around the ... an entire 5 minutes usually had pretty strong opinions about the whole

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  into the depths of meditative relaxation, AKA, I ate some fruit and read ... . Over the course of a long and ponderous night, revelations tiptoed ... the nonchalant grace of someone who unknowingly steps on a match and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to ... political science research design, statistics, and R, the computer language of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  /sororities/independent living groups), G@MIT, and many more! Check out the LGBT MIT page: https ... discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most ... ://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S2407. It’s super short. In November, the people of

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  time getting the hang of simple things that were easy to make and tasted ... the broccoli, which made the whole dish unpleasantly mushy. and I made ... fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the ... heart sings at the sight of acid-base reactions and descriptions of SN1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a ... New York City for the rest of my life and live out my days...doing what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  : Rhino, a device for masons to help speed up, and clean up, the repair of ... :   and a recap of some fond memories from the class: 2.009 is ... Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017