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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog ... -mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... -me-to-be-your-friend cool. For $250, all DJs in the studio would sing a song of your choosing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  . That the men in my life are now destined to be this. To be, for lack of ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... on a near-cosmic level, like soulmates for friends. That was until we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at ... from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... make the case in our favor. For example, over the last decade or so, our ... In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets ... Charles River is so beautiful for running. Even Murakami talks about this in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... on an intramural basketball team for about 3 semesters now! We play in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We ... interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my ... manifest them in the physical world because putting yourself out there is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... really be in our romanticism era. One month later, with an Airbnb booked, tickets for the commuter rail bought, and our laptops ready for blogging, we

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  , which is new for me—my prior history classes were fairly limited in their ... yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon—in ... planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  , money earned and spent (mostly spent). In fact, I often conflate progress with quantifiable successes—exam scores, for example. And sometimes this is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  will be looking for applicants for its planning board in the fall. If you ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  terrible puns…) 5. Finally, A big shout-out to DJ JR, for all his help in ... , ready to watch some ghosts. We chilled in the destination location for a ... now and again. In Boston, however, since there are so many people and so

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  decision admissions results came out for MIT!! I was deferred back in ... home, I sat in front of the computer for a good fifteen minutes ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed ... I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period ... people take "externships" (short one-month internships) in industry or ... 've been helping with through my UROP at the center for civic media

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of pies and heaves one at the blogger. In even more gratuitiously slow

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students ... .  Like most stereotypes, this is not wholly accurate.  For example, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... This blog post is about the following picture: In particular ... got them at the COOP on Monday after coveting them for a year. I had

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011