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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... playing Gamecube and/or discussing the political leanings of Jesus at 4 AM ... our little suite. At the end of the hallway there is a supply closet, as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was ... played games that you traditionally play at swank MIT dinner parties, like ... Ambition that I never think I'll be very good at, but it's actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  should be about as good at taekwondo as I am at chemical engineering. Well, yeah, I'd say that's at least as impressive as the 63 percent I got ... three basic routines. 1. N heroes (usually small women) spar with at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... , we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... . Unfortunately, the Sox lost 7-4, but games at Fenway Park are always enjoyable

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a ... .M. Church. I live at 12183 Cainwood Avenue. I aspire to become an author. (and teacher) or pediatrician or physicist or psychologist." Perhaps at age 21 I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... ," said Dr. Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Case Western Reserve ... scientist that does not include, at some level, some comparison to Einstein

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... Sox party hopping started, beginning at the previously mentioned Jeff's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  as smart as you were. My friends at MIT who were varsity athletes ... people could come and watch (we'd always have at least a small crowd). My ... frozen for a couple months of the year. So I grabbed the opportunity at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , Four years of my life, when everyone at my high school literally forgot I ... your so good at school lol”) until I got into MIT (“it’s only because she ... minority myth and being good at math and playing piano and being told I had

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last ... student group i’ve encountered at mit (some other student groups also run ... improvement, and because of this they’re one of the communities at mit that i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... requested a second night at this hotel. Then maybe I could rotate between the ... access, a badge I did not have. At the end of the work day, our team went

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... stayed at this really cool place called the India House Hostel, a hippie ... weather. I bought a math textbook and a book of french poetry at a used

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially nothing at all, which wound up being quite a bit...but that's a story for ... to some...[annotation note="I count in my inbox at least eight or nine

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  myself be bad at things, even if it sucks in the moment.   The only class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in ... -bending property of spacetime, and try to catch at least some sense of what the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  think two or three nights ago we were at the Floor Pi Discord server just ... them at a time. There will be some spoilers, tips, and screenshots, but I ... 's kind of clear what to do at any given moment, though, and coupled with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and ... particularly wanted to study at MIT. I didn't look at the course catalog too ... and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and people have some strong opinions about what's good and what's bad; at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  storage is by renting a storage space at U-Haul for the summer and then renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  group, are excited to have you here :) We at East Campus are especially ... East Campus courtyard and you’ll probably see at least one person walking ... already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... secure. It turns out that Sia actually started at HackMIT 2013. Hack ... leave. Miraculously, I made the cut. At the opening ceremony, we heard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017