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• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  population for studies on genetic and environmental contributions to alcoholism ... of money for my education, and the least I could do was try to pay for ... work with my homework for a few hours on end. I got a lot of homework

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  for school spirit? Blood on concrete and all that. My free blood drive ... that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... once while he was on the ground, just for good measure. I saved that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  also consumed my remaining free time for breakfast. To the unending ... 's Prarieville, Iowa on Sunday mornings). Manishika '12, for instance, goes to ... started to look less like a container for storing robots and more like an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  people. It was on a whim that I decided to sign up for sorority ... efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on ... and then move on to our personal perspectives on sorority life. A Bit

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded by friends, singing loudly for the night sky to hear. [caption id ... on Independence Day every year. He very kindly offered to take myself

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... freshman fall, when I kept waiting and waiting for the snow to come. October ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the ... internships. I wasn’t looking for a standard internship, but I had nothing to ... . This harlequin beetle was too big to fit on my hand. After three weeks

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the ... Amtrak. One day, it suddenly occurred to me that when I'm on a train, I ... from NYC to Providence, I started reading Stone Butch Blues as a pdf on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work ... on the team! I had no idea what to expect. I’d already paid team dues ... hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I ... to give people a primer and look into what it's like to prep for these ... qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  would be too much for me to focus on at once? Totally unpredictable ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... ,[/annotation] if he sees my name show up somewhere. I still don't think I'll go on to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines. You rose closer with the sun today, shivered on the way to lab, the ... through bones— But that isn’t common. At least not for you to remember you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  opinions on the merits and flaws of the book. For instance, to his taste, my ... than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... to be a huge day, but staring at myself, with my bent glasses hinged on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart ... it may seem like the “end of the world” to them (and fodder for yet

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  . Come tuck into a meat-free feast prepared for you by Randomites. If you ... of Fortress Awesome invite you to their castle for a glorious feast ... ! Come munch on authentic home-cooked Hispanic food while listening to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  . How do I get to know people? How do I find community on campus? For me ... for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm ... to me knows, but you are as free as you want to be at MIT. You can take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun ... for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... managed to zipline upside-down on my last attempt, although I never quite

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also ... buzz for Oscar Wao on the class discussion list [see entry: "Running away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008