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• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on ... the second tower. The most personal part of the day for me was what we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  . For example, the degree to which other teams match up against any given ... offense was setting records for scoring, the defense was setting records for ... they should have won handily. Then, last night, the defense stepped up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go ... EMTs. Writing a short story for my HASS class was entirely entertaining and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  question popping up on Facebook statuses lately. For me, 18.02A was the ... IAP sucked up nearly 9 hours every week, but thank god for it I ... (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to ... 't escape until after finals. Tests pile up in the narrow, cramped margins of ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... buddy Ben, you see, has had - for as long as I've known him - a slight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... special traditions, but it's not so fun for the tourist and the non

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder ... misery. That being said, hopefully you aren't signing up for MIT because ... for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  blogging for MIT. I remember all the ups and downs of these past eight weeks ... campus for the first time as an actual student - when I said that final goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear ... high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  basically I used up all my writing braincells that I usually save for the ... dressed up as a character who dressed up as a gnome for halloween ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for ... Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet ... about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  the room was for networking, while the startups had tables lining up the ... to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for ... Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on ... Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  ’re really not kidding. I found myself waking up on May 19 with no plans for ... the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  heating up the front seat of my compact car. I was drinking an ice coffee ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our ... think up something wonderful. And it seemed to me that this sentiment was

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... Bring Home pile will eventually end up in one of my big red suitcases (clothes, toiletries, super-secret gift for my parents and sisters) or my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her ... summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  & Grad School)' section; check it out for further reading on this topic ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006