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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at ... I wouldn’t be able to continue this “always being social” life style ... being social to me never leaving the library/my room in order to study

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  relating to what can be sensitive or private material, and students come here ... ; Living Here and Being Queer Another discussion based event. We sat in a nice cozy circle and talked about our own personal experiences being

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  . Despite being a New York native all my life, this is the first time I ... no longer going to be all that I had dreamt about. People on the train ... being denied access to a place that is a home for my hopeful heart and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  content being nothing but a spectator. I think we can all agree when I say ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... form characters and worlds and stories in my head that have yet to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  letting me write this guest post and being an overall awesome human being ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... across time, and how historical relevance can be so fleeting. It was the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  there, they push you to fully understand the solution and be able ... this motto, you typically won't be examined on rigorous proofs. You ... -cold gaze. This supervisor comes in many shapes and sizes. They can be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J ... will be lost when you are old. We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  , “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more ... circumstance would be hurrying on their way - all stopped to pay tribute to a ... of music or prayers or consolations, written or spoken, will ever be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  meal plan, I don’t have to do this Sunday – Thursday), be social Saturday ... may be sleeping) Sunday: UROP, Meetings at The Tech, house meeting at my ... every weekend, but between the random things that my days would be

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  developments in biotechnology and chemistry and will be analyzing that data to ... being finished because at that point I felt far from any conclusions. We ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... (I feel old :( ) being in NYC during term on weekends, longer weekends ... be in four classrooms at once Monday and Wednesdays from 1-3. he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  , so the rooms in a suite will be 254A-254E, in our case.). And made ... in this picture might be wearing sweats.) (Why yes, that would be live Mario Kart in the halls of Burton Conner, and why yes, that would be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  friends. I am excited for some of the classes I'll be taking, but with ... about winter is going to be much more vociferous this year. fluency in a ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  , it also helps that this particular lecture is being given after my ... contemplate yelling "LSC!" but realize that would be kind of rude at this ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely

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

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  blog entry has to be about CPW, so I'm going to treat you to another ... ____ " or "I learned this last year." I learned nothing in 8.01 but was being ... wasn't going to be able to do it. I couldn't pass physics, I was going to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  wondering if there was going to be a chorus line of dancing sea otters or ... slightest chance you won’t be attending then they’ll send you the most ... card, I figured I’d fill out some paperwork and then a week later be

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be ... , and Patrick Winston are now being introduced and will soon be arguing ... number (sqrt(3)). Dourmashkin is done speaking and now Ari Epstein is being

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  my life (fun)^-1. The only thing worse than being sick and wanting to ... will tell you, being sick isn't an excuse to not do homework, so the ... homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  one. In four years, you will be in a completely different situation. As ... , etc. It can be a very confusing and frustrating time, since these ... and I must think long and hard about what our next step will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007