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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... an interestingly prominent part of his MIT experience. Knowing that ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of ... are the themes of the play? What kind of couch do I want? Should

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three ... the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts ... scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... -fasting diet of watery vegetable soup and salad (occasionally and discreetly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

   side of MIT, and especially love their nexus, MIT's Center for Civic Media ... sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway ... campus as a CMS alumna, MIT lecturer, and cofounder of what might be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure ... : this weekend reminded me of it. Several weekends ago, I was having ... one of them casually remarked, "Oh, I saw Mitra the other day

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... 't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... classes as I could, spent the remainder of my time working as a teaching and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I couldn't have done it without all your help. I feel kind of guilty begging ... ! $100! One of my charms is that I have absolutely no responsibility when

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday naps in the sun. My mom had been feeding them some of her chinese cooking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life ... , and sense of humor and then sprinkle a love of building things and

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

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  impressive slate of visitors over the past year - Melis recently blogged about ... Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I still think Neil wins. (No offense to the guv'nor, of course.) Of course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was ... day of 8.01 was quite fun, I enjoyed it, but we took a pretest and I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free screening of Jumper! Speaking of Jumper, I'm wearing a blue sweater. And now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006