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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  a bunch of people I don’t know* Instructor: “Ok, each team should ... team* I’ll do it! *team does not protest, I raise hand* Instructor ... very interested in hiring people like you. When I found out about the

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me as a faceless recluse, I haven't been posting because of a drought of ... it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of year, but i am going to guilt you anyway because that is what i am here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  I. Flying back home to MIT from home in South Bend (not a typo), I ... flying east as I stared north at the city I now call home, and the Charles ... , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  be MIT. It's so obvious but up until today I've ignored this awesome ... enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... . I had the grant, I had the licenses, but I just couldn't get the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  month ago. Sorry guys, I apparently thought I was Nance for a second there... my bad. Meanwhile Mr. Prolific has logged 43 entries so far in 2007 - I think he deserves some sort of trophy, don't you? Before I tell you about

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  As I've discussed on this blog before, MIT MedLinks are awesome. Got ... ankle? Hold on, I'll wrap you up with an Ace bandage before we hop on over ... down the hall to Carlos '09 and say, "What up? I'm sick, so excuse me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Over the Memorial Day Weekend I packed the family into the car and made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... was for female students, and whether I had experienced discrimination as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  "...albeit a very useful one." --Albert Einstein I think I found the coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality television... well, I've declared myself that and nobody has ever contradicted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played ... people! First, I got an email from Eric more than a week ago (to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  While I'm highlighting awesome MIT '09s... Every summer, community ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I ... written about you (or, parents, your son or daughter), send it along and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  my summer travels -- I was home briefly on 3 separate occasions (my ... just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus ... , at Snowbird in Salt Lake City. Disclaimer: to be fair, I took a tram up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go to the landlord's office, and it happened even worse when I got off the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009