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• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  to make me into a hot emotional mess. My emotional threshold was so low ... January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my spring classes, I got a positive test last Wednesday and had to quarantine

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  MIT's campus. It only opened its doors to students this winter, so the ... 'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door, through the building, and up to my room on the fifth floor. We'll start

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  still didn't make it to the 5th."]all 4 meetings.[/annotation] I bought ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... sets and early morning rowing practices. I’m excited to see my friends

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... though. I was actually excited! I was initially going to write a post about "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to make a few promises on future content. Quite a lot has been compressed ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... here just to answer some questions that have been posed to me over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  season!! We just wrapped up our regular season, and I wanted to share the last three days that led up to that, because a lot went down. Wednesday On Wednesday, we had our second to last game of the regular season

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  Transitioning from first to second semester has actually been pretty ... schedule. Compared to first semester, I now have more classes, more homework ... ! Academically, it was the best part of my week. It felt great to be back helping

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  he always has new witty comments to make on our comments on different ... . '16 and I are making a bean casserole dish that is supposed to be really ... friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  class, are coming up soon, and all of the professors want to make sure ... , I can afford to make a few mistakes. Still, I’d rather not… so I ... pretty manageable. I studied as much as I needed to and went to bed by11 or

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small-town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all ... 's motivated me to get through some hard weeks — "It's almost time," they said ... headed over to the State Room. Luckily, groups of people were still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  able to make any high school visits, but I finally got my fish tacos ... get to make my first trip to Mexico. I spent a grand total of 20 minutes ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  fully intend to have the time of my life too. But I need your help! What ... math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  ? Dr. Lester: Damn, you're good. I was trying to trick you. Luckily, I ... to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of filing to be done. Doing all that filing reminded me of Being John

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO ... much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a ... Blowing Gum. I have yet to visit Harry Potter World, sadly (it will happen

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  /bio/chem till my brain feels like it's dying. And then I go to lab and do things ... stretches all the way to and sometimes out of the door. 2. At any given time ... occasionally refer to this Starbucks as an extension of their offices. Not that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007