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• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  jockeying for social status and acceptance in teenage hormone land, otherwise ... strong work ethic on top. Simple enough, I figured it summed me up pretty ... topics around in my head and wait for inspiration. That's the thing about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  consisted entirely of nerdy pick-up lines, beginning with that one. (“Vote for ... . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too ... “First Year HASS Experience” (common humanities classes required for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  probably adds up to about one extra class worth of time for you, which isn ... quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... correct answers. That is not uncommon for MIT. Today in UROP Andy presented

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to do (aka study for the 5.111 ASE, which I ended up failing anyway ... [/caption] I'd been hearing about Hades for months before I actually ended up ... love my favorite pieces of media. Turning to fiction for comfort has

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally, I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... for more reflections along this train of thought, though. Interval - This was Joon and I's final project for 6.809 (Interactive Music Systems

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  -is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently ... ]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  hold off on some interesting pictures I have for you so I can follow-up ... it up for the day." About this Mario hack, the story I heard was that ... I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river ... friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... , beaten-up version of it. a painful memory, like a wound, causes pain every

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  on Friday night and still get up on Saturday morning ready for the ... through if it were not for this queen. It was like having a mwakenya (cheat sheet) for college life. At first she came across as overbearing, and a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  recommend that you do! And if you feel up for it, share some of your ... land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... during Marathon weekend and saw the finish line! 11) Cleaned up nicely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  , something especially appreciated at an institution notorious for being one of ... instead of giving up extra hours of sleep to finish up a pset. I go into ... emma. i'd die for all of them."]my friend group[/annotation]decided to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it ... begin to shift a little. So yes, I spent my first weekend a little bit up ... , my wonderful co-coordinator Sarah A. ('21) and I literally woke up at 6

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  goes on. For years, I've subconsciously been trying to come up with a formula for success. Ya know the big ol' "what makes someone successful?" Up ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , slept for three hours, woke up, had a nice cup of coffee, called up my ... for it. I stood up, walked over to the table, put the goggles down ... friends Friday. So I stayed up Friday night watching Pineapple Express with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  ?). It caught up with me pretty quickly, so I crashed for the rest of the ... up a breakfast burrito at Qdoba and camped out in a little park just ... my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the Snow Goose Gift Shop to ask for directions, but ended up talking to ... visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... opportunity for a burger. Mr. Bartley's are awesome. Also, their sweet potatoes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  (?) inch telescope and set it up on Glacier Point to observe for two nights ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  jammed up today, and it would be hard for us to meet up. Can we meet Friday ... 's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... books with me. When I went back around 8:00 PM to pick them up, they were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... their moments, but it's all in order to prepare you for your ultimate pass ... waiting, like when I want the reactor to heat up from ambient temperature to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006