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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of, in all seriousness: Wow - in just one more day, I will not have blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There's the 8 page draft paper that was due today. Or the 6.004 lab where I have ... design project which is due on Thursday (I actually still don't know what

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  Saturday, 07/07/07, was my birthday! I usually don't plan anything big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  . I've taken, among other things, a functional and evolutionary ... a small, noncompetitive high school? I'm a little worried about how ... a common misconception that I remember coming up pretty often on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  Questions 1. Anonymous asked, Did you go to Senior Ball? I think Mitra did. I think Mitra definitely did. :) Adam and I actually didn't go ... at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... you. Unfortunately, I can't do that yet, but I can write these retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  I have a lot of free time tonight after finishing my 21F.401: German I listening assignments, courtesy of the LLARC. I'm still not very good at it; I transcribed one line of dictation as "Wen essen Sie?" which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Last week, I left the country for the first time! This was really important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... ? Everyone was understandably reluctant to drive, so I volunteered. After all, I’ve had my South African driver’s license for three years and was no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to ... TV shows I watched that week!   How did you start with YouTube? Jocelyn: I started making videos about a year ago because our basketball

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its name is FINAL FANTASY 7. I LOVE this game. It has been my guiding beacon since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... .06 videos on MIT OCW. These videos saved me when I was taking Linear Algebra in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. While I was a graduate student, CMS merged ... think and comment publicly on science and technology, i.e. to be a public

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  Last December I blogged about judging Trashion 2014, an event where ... about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  * * * There are 37 days before graduation, so I decided that Room Cleaning must begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I ... , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... I think I sunk a bit too deeply into the Institute these past few

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

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop. I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a set of answers about MIT, I want you to stop reading and think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that moment, I felt so much panic. “Oh no. What am I going to say. I literally

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021