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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…

  

  're pretty informal. No shows at halftime -- at least not yet. Laura commented ... are not good enough, it's just that there aren't that many dorm rooms at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I ... Verde's (grocery store in the student center) and bought a banana. At this point, I ... invited me to lunch at the Kendall Food Court. We got lunch with Stephen

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... would fit at MIT - something the paper application alone can never match ... experiences and memories about his/her time at MIT. The interview really is a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , because I'm sort of taking 60 units and working at my UROP 16 hours a week ... today. To top things off, I went in at 7 AM today, and will probably go in at 7 AM again tomorrow. I guess the real issue here is that I (like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a ... at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people ... general? We're a bit underrepresented at MIT, especially if you count the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my ... Friday this summer, they've got Free Friday Flicks at the Hatch Shell. Last ... 're reading this, cucumber ice cream is back at JP Licks.

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  quite useful to carry a flashlight and multitool at MIT - it's a bit of a ... hectic in the summer at MIT anyway; you don't have to worry about classes, problem sets, exams, grades, etc. Most student activities are running at a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard Square. That's me with Rocky Horror. Uh, read at your own risk. Okay ... get to Harvard in those 4-inch bright red heels or not to get there at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  Boston today, though I missed the day at work. I can tell you, though, that ... President Emeritus Charles Vest used to say. At each year's Freshman ... remember at this time of the year. No matter how things turn out for you when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  one of the most popular student groups at MIT, with its concerts always selling out). At #6, Lee Jung's "Look at Me" borrows from Bollywood (and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  , chronicled during his time at the high school: "Everyone wants to go to the ... and reputation, it is often discounted. So, at the end of each of my ... York at Stony Brook on Long Island, NY. I chose this to be the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... hosted the meeting provided wireless Internet access, so at the conclusion ... (though I'm much better at sticking to time limits than I was when I first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this ... consistently spend money to study at a coffee shop when I feel less guilty if I just eat at the dining hall for free? (This means I don't go to Boston

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  thing that helps is to pick your head up, to stop staring at the sidewalk and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes ... be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... myself up at the bright and early time of 10am to peel some apples and ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at ... = "I write this while looking at the Charles River"]b) VERY close to a ... combat this lack-of-answers in Dali's content (at least, at first glances

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take ... .002), and Fundamentals of Programming 6.101(6.009) at the same time on top of ... possible because my time at this forsaken institute is limited. But not all

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  adored my art teacher.  At a certain point, though, I started being coined ... reading. I taught younger students basic research concepts, volunteered at ... .  Recently, though, I think I've been struggling to identify myself at college

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures ... complex, worse, more joyful, harder. But at its core, I do think that it is ... arrived at MIT with the raw materials I needed to be an adult -- maturity

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... measures, the most difficult exam I’ve taken so far at MIT… but all that is ... from the indenter were inconclusive. At this point, I was rather

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023