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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.* Although I'm back in Boston for the moment, I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading your stories (because they are all so different and awesome). I love

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  than grad students, or something (I don't know why; I work half as much ... ). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  I'm so jet-lagged! And completely slap-happy! Yayyyy! Today's events: 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane, since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  victims of natural disasters. I myself am from Naples Florida and just got power back from Wilma." And Justin wrote, "I am from New Orleans and my ... for Early Action because the post office is messed up currently. I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... Hall residents. I did have a simple Yamaha piano growing up, but then

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... sentences I split up at random places. Semantics.) This green armchair, Is so ... , Right now, I think I shall sit here indefinitely. I can see the sailboats

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... - Mechanical Engineering When I was a freshman, I filled up my IAP with so many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  /22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have ... my December score?" I'm almost positive that you have to request that ... . ------------------------------------- Lindsay wrote: "I didn't realize that we could send January scores, so I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... it. But actually, the transition can be pretty painful. I'm here to ... the game that'll shine through anyway. We're not kidding. I got pretty

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a ... meant I had to pack everything I could into two suitcases, so I spent my ... ordering these many Amazon packages, I’ve also ended up wasting investing

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  college? what?? Like many I’ve talked to, I’m still stuck a couple ... . Senior year was a blur, and junior year basically never existed. I forgot that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  Last summer, Kidist and I wrote about our experience with Infinite ... I am still the internal relations director. As a club, we put together and published our ninth issue this past fall semester, which I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus must have been worse, but I think it had a different shade of despair

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  Now that it's been almost three months since I graduated, I figure it's about time to blog about it. Turns out I'm just as bad as blogging things on time as I always have been. Sorry about that. So. I graduated. And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring Break here? I know, I have failed you all. Please accept my sincerest ... subject- homework! As I've mentioned before, this semester I'm taking both

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  . there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025