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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the blogosphere shortly after going French. That story has three parts. It begins with not having enough…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  I’m writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in the sunny California Bay Area, where temperatures are above fifty degrees and the skies are…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the dew had dried…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  have trouble with those last two).  You're spending $55K a year to be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  -mailing nifty people. i. Making listz j. Listening to Liszt k. Help me l. I can

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I love knowing that I’ve said…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft. It was a big, nervous change for me because I am not only change-averse but…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn’t stifling. Today was stifling.…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative, but also exhausting – I actually fell asleep while writing this last night, so let’s give this another try…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Know Things About This Obscure Acronym (CPWKTATOA), a.k.a. one of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  [Apologies that this entry is so delayed. I’ve been walking around like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot of sweat trying to get…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  experienced, and that’s why Freshman Fall term is Pass/No Record (a.k.a Pass

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  firearms. No Target, Toys-R-Us, K-Mart, CVS, KB Toys, or Wal-Mart had any

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces – from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from San Diego to Los Angeles, Flight 264 from LAX to Logan Airport, and the fraternity in…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  I have an interesting relationship with Harvard. Coming from MIT I have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I have an older sister who…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I didn’t start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on what it’s like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the autumnal…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  WHY MIT IS AMAZING (as if you really needed another reason)ME: This morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too tired,…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006