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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... hike was pretty typical for Washington trails. You hike from the forest floor up into the foothills of the mountain, surrounded by towering trees

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  stay focused and not let work from this class pile up, because the work ... because it hasn't ramped up in abstraction yet and because holomorphic ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  meant we were up against each other for a shot at the finals. My roommate ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... -pressure probably helped me. I made the cut, for the live round. Turns out my roommate

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  .06 (Linear Algebra) after staying up most of the night studying for it ... moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow ... convenient excuse for not blogging since February - it’s not that I’ve been too

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for ... Guthrie," I've registered for ceramics glasses over IAP, and after years of ... sparkle with intensity, and the stakes for everything seem higher, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  , dress up entirely in pink for the Gangnam Style flash mob in Killian Court ... to gracefully flail on the ice rink, while dressed up as your favorite ... dressed up as Iron Man.   Weekend 7 If this weekend were a soup

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... up with the team’s progress (since I came back from England after the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up ... it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth ... meals on her own for herself and her two brothers. I wouldn't have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  enlistees, and that Bill Gates had cleverly developed a way to hook up my ... program that paid for countless free dinners and concert tickets last year. Highly recommended, even if I don't remember what the “AP” stands for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  an hour long car ride back home for dinner at McMenamins. If you ... early and woke up early, to weather like this People in Boston will ... work at home, working outside for my dad. No, I'm not working for Google

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  food events like this. During her class breaks, she would walk up and ... food they were having. She didn’t have to cook for like, 2 solid weeks ... part responsible for getting me involved in GPI. GPI is the Global

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  bringing it back completely makes up for all of my recent absence. Again, I ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... 's been a month and a week since I last posted. And it's not for lack of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  linking them all). :) We hate MIT at times for keeping us up at 4 or 5 in ... guest blogs that would undoubtedly be popping up over the course of the ... volunteering to a passion for languages to butterfly collecting...it all had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  ! Anonymous asked, "Hi, Mollie! How did you and Adam get matched up with your "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random ... hosts?" Adam was matched up with our starter child (who is Timur, yay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  screwed up my back/shoulder/neck area at cheerleading camp tonight, and I ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  pushed right up against the windows. This is nice (for now, while the ... room in the halls/dorms generally? 2.are there different halls for boys ... people hate them. I suppose that really depends on who you end up sharing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in ... pinata making, but I wasn't there. Until Ben sets up http://conner3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle ... , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... explanation for why he did this, but it might be that he was just bored. A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  " where we can search just for this volume. Looking up words like "logo ... […] was also to come up with a graphic identity for MIT. MIT had a seal ... different style of writing for this post, emphasizing the process of how I do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that the season is basically broken up into three mini seasons: Preseason

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023