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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  important meal of the day normally starts my day with a feeling of guilt ... in a good mood and ready to sit down and chat with you at any ... out with other MIT folk. I went yesterday morning with Maddie '11

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  with a bat." -Christina '10 "It must be finals week!" -Ben Why am I ... you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family ... is hard you're all in it together with your classmates. Then you will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers ... desks- packed with papers, binders- to gather pens and notes, to close the ... fighting a war we couldn't win. The Seniors watched with satisfaction. But

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have been working very hard, and dealt well with setbacks. There was an ... the photos, and that she asked them, "Er, what's with the smoke?" or ... with a friend and her roommate to celebrate her birthday. It was cold and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam. Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special ... ceremony. The bloggers kicked it off with the "top ten(ish) reasons to choose ... to snap this pic of me with Mollie and Jessie. The infamous festival

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  taken to another level with our improvised marching band accompaniment on ... get a picture of Alicia with the five-foot-tall trophy, but she took it ... Harvard (with Mollie next year), lives next to me, and has performed cancer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  . Now with most things at MIT, I would suggest anyone to just check out fraternities and make up their own opinion of them. With anything, people react ... . Now here we are in September, rush began on Saturday afternoon with the

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  groups. We're a collection of 4000 unique people with abnormal interests ... varsity sports teams (tied with some school up the street, I've heard, for ... rate is consistent with the national average for 18 to 22-year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  decided to visit Doha, Qatar, with Jade B '26, a friend also going to ... "stopover program," for multi-day layovers with free/heavily discounted hotel ... arrived at Hamad International Airport with Jade, [annotation note="I met up

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... turned to hobbies, making things with my [annotation note="mens et manus am ... the months leading up to decision day. I could play with absolutely no

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  death on the street, with less dignity than a stray dog. And it’s not just ... kenyans who worked there served us with less priority because we looked like them, while the Italians we were sharing a pool with got served with the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... experiences for the academic standards i’m comfortable with? could i, perhaps ... -optimizing” (FOMO) in a conversation with Scott Alessandro, the Director of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  , Nebraska, with Flux securely loaded into our trailer. Several gas station ... with the regulations for the competition as well as pass dynamic tests ... started out with a lot of confidence as we got 'Greens' for most of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  start right off the bat with ~love~ or whatever 16 year old me thought ... getting married to that person, having kids with that person, getting old with that person, etc etc. It turns out I do that with every boy I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  courses, with many more and many exceptions. Last fall, 3 of my 4 classes ... pset across all grades, with an incredibly high standard deviation. For ... -cent notebook paper with scattered eraser burns and coffee spills is a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  less frequently and with more consideration for other people. The fact ... report card, and decorated it with a drawing that I labeled "bath cat". I ... with the little kids, and we all know that being 9 years old means being

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  nightmare, since there were so many tricks with integration and ... allotted, and passed it with flying colors) - but I remember staring at ... nights. Now, it's funny, because I almost feel the same way with Orgo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  magnificently staged. A giant blue trash can was brought on stage and filled with ... concerned. I mean, how could I blog about life with a roommate unless I had ... Hall, the third floor lounge was packed with upperclassmen spectators

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... let me tell you, it wasn't pretty. Like a preteen boy with more bacne ... with my grad student, Livia, on imaging the visual word form area of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008