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• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  the branches, if I could learn chemistry by capturing drops of rain ... Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... . Most everyone resolved to get some work done on these couple of days, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  favorite of the three body art shops I've visited, by far. After getting the ... -than-standard sized piece of jewelry in my ear. This was easily resolved by swapping to ... past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  eyes of those that have not yet been touched by the world. I don’t want ... of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... sense of deja vu. I had done this before. I had searched a name like this

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  taking this class i've been inspired by the intersection of software and ... activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... '11, and I had at least another hour of work ahead of us. A row of manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  're used pretty heavily, at least judging by the percentage of machines which ... This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to ... of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  [intro]We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it. (250 words maximum)[/intro]   If you are familiar with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... -to stress-relief jam is usually Shake It Off, and after several hums of “I ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  school. Being surrounded by such STEM-oriented people, the very same people who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics conundrum, has thrown me into some sort of spiral of "not being MIT enough

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On ... 't come out of it. That's not really a terrible thing, except that with the ... walk around carrying a trumpet out of its case in one hand all day. Of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  amount of lotion can combat eczema when it's caused by something that is ... This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately ... ="6.009 is Fundamentals of Python. It's usually the second or third

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... by, that we're somehow seniors now. He's working at a startup this ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I ... beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny Moore of Aevitas Creative Entertainment. If you’re curious about how that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  goal, by the end of four years, is to be able to pull together a tasty ... **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning ... last week to a small rural area of India called Anaikatti. Since then, I ... beauty of this place is reason enough to be here – but the actual purpose

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Weekend, but you're wrong. CPW really means "4 days of Pure a ... on large chunks of text unless said chunks of text are arranged into some sort of visually appealing shape, like a circle or better yet, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  Well, today was my last day of class as an undergrad. Technically the last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can ... maniac 2. Eat mass quantities of exotic foods 3. Lift heavy objects

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005