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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT on the plane home, and then got home and found out Sam had written his own totally…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I’ve grown and other such…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  I know, I know, it’s been like eight years since I wrote anything. I promise I haven’t fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though, is taking a…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It’s hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school when I wasn’t totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was pretty much it for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his memory. Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve had anything substantial to say; finals hit a few weeks…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It’s funny how when you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  1. So my sister bought me a bike. It’s a used bike, but it’s still red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  , Bryan had the awesome idea that he, Mitra, and I would go as i^, j^, and k

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  Cheney, but he also did material about computers freezing and Y2K. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  I’m a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it’s my favorite class (and not only because my TA is…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last 24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which was written by my…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis ’10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge. They haven’t…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor’s note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming manages credit policies for incoming freshmen, and the policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true? ME: What? MOM: You’re not really kicked out of MIT, were you? ME: Yeah, I’ve already…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  HEY THAT'S A REALLY INTERESTING POSTER FOR MIT 50K" thing. We didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you’re flying to college. Or you’re flying anywhere alone, and you’re me. You charge your iPod and your computer and pack extra underwear and think about all the new…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  Happy International Left-Handers Day yesterday! I’ve never had to deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to splinters in 10-250 next year, you know…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  Someone commented on the post regarding blogger applications asking that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing as I have no other use for this absolutely…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  "pqrs") to list "list": blanche list -a pqrs k) If you want to use a MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006