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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did ... handing out of the degrees. Otherwise, check the commencement web page for ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  top 10 in the whole of india, i guess...it somehow doesnt show on my ... 'm sure you must be familiar with most of them) how highly do you rank the ... better insight into the exam as a whole..?" You should send us whatever

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E ... (E.Jones) instead of E.Jones2, but the truth is, our power really is

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to be involved." I emailed the students in charge of the DEAL program

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead ... in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over ... well I'll have more confidence about the possibilty of moving into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  the first element greater than both of its neighbors" to "write a ... Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have ... haven’t felt since the last time we did p-sets, and one fourth of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  how much I fucked up in the first half of the semester, and one month of ... pain I was trying to escape from was the only way of feeling truly whole ... of me was hesitant to talk about that whole dilemma on the blogs, but

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  Keri produced entirely during "the Month of January/IAP." It was about a ... lot more exciting than either of them expected. I really liked the music ... any pictures of the play, which is really sad because one of my friend

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  the sand, a quantitative way of keeping track of my future hosage. To ... semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... 's nothing wrong with that -- you have to see the shape of a picture first ... welcomed. The blogs were one of the first places I ever saw people like me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  post. 1: I got pushed off the MIT Admissions front page. If you ... kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the ... first full day off, which was on Tuesday. I took advantage of this day and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... , because the actual context was, uh, pretty sexist. I think the first time I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  like an orbital!!!”    — 9PM. The first night of CPW.  Our ... Harvard Bridge as the sun rose over the first day of finals season. The ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  love the month of September because it’s the first month of the new year ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... the marathon. The track was lined with cheering families and friends

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... representative of the city itself) once a weekend. Honestly, the activation energy ... this summer, and with the whole being-sisters thing, we understandably

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  anthropomorphic dog that sheds all the time. My first exam of the year was for 5 ... was catching up on sleep. Tuesday night was the first night of ... control. On the day of my first exam of the week, feeling as if I had not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  : Teach for America just invited me to the first round of interviews. Woo! ... The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... Theater: Scenery The final component of my theater arts concentration. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016