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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Saturdays, we'd wake up early to walk a beautiful two miles from our ... , making the walk almost unbearable as we sweated and struggled to carry the ... at PKT to make brunch. I'd sneak over some eggs and bread from the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  , just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little ... do on a day to day basis: try to make the world suck a little less ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  who want to make a lot of money go into the financial sector, people who ... ambitious, have goals and dreams, and are willing to commit to making those ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of ... 't think i have the mental capacity to be making decisions like that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words ... tetris game, or putting a police car or a telephone box on the dome. To

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  opportunities kept coming. I used to dread dancing the way a lobster dreads lemon ... juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... of a scientist or engineer is what makes artists at MIT so good at

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  little sad, but mostly, it makes me want to take a couple years off between ... UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  want to be. It’s taking a break to admire what’s around you. It’s good ... ’s staying up late at night to make sure everyone’s got their pset done. It ... , day to day, I find myself in a constant cycle of never-ending work. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... . (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium ... . When I make appointments to "get coffee" with someone, I do not actually

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... conclusion of a great semester. You've probably already heard about many of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  happens to me which makes a good story, I end up telling it to just about ... their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... ’m taking a sailing class! So this morning at 11am I reported to the sailing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  Lobby 7 to commemorate the moment, making sure to take a few in front of ... that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of "Whoa 2010, way to peace out so fast like that" here are some doodles from ... he was just a program, but he was still GUTTAAGGGG!" to myself, a la

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; work last IAP, I tried to UROP but applied for a random one that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just ... been to eat healthier food that costs less money, with a weekly exception ... our cheat day to Saturday and had clam chowder (which is apparently a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... the eve of the eve of the eve of Halloween, I chose to execute a feat of ... . Cheapness is a nirvana, and the road to enlightenment is lined with random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room ... with a 93.3 average and earned a full scholarship to the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  ,[/annotation] but here's a sneak preview while we're waiting for the event to start ... than the outside air *in a fancy voice* "very nice." – Kayode To summarize; Red Team made a product called Vortex, which is an alternative to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  have a lot of similarities, so I'm already used to conjugating verbs and ... . At the same time, this makes it difficult: because a lot of things are so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008