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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here ... , since it ended up being completely false - but I'm getting ahead of myself ... I admit: I'm kind of excited, although next time I will put on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  in from my dorm's Area Director, saying "as I'm sure you've noticed ... don't recognize at all. I'm sure I'll see him around. Another nice thing ... , they all walked out together. Now I'm the only person left in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to ... MIT, I generally stuck to the safe road. This summer, thanks to MISTI I’m ... brilliant. And you know what? I’m even going to miss that one bird outside

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We ... . Here’s what we came up with (keep in mind that I’m condensing about 2 ... to be a valuable pause in the action. I know I’m sometimes less likely

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  I'm not new to the blogs (though we do have some wicked bloggers up ... confused you into thinking that I am. Nope, I'm just a sophomore that's going ... , spread out your workload, too. This is the approach I'm taking. I have some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  people - and I'm still friends with a number of them today. Occasionally, I ... MIT life). Like CTY, I made friends here who I'm close to even now - and ... : Research at MIT ...which brings us to now! I'm working with a grad student

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  governing factors to guide my list-making besides "I'm just going to list a ... should feel embarrassed? Sorry, I'm too busy being captivated by Danny O ... -embarrassing tracks that my middle-school self loved (I'm talking Anberlin, Armor For

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  ! against all odds, I'm employed! My second thought was: oh my god, what am I ... wherever you are is the place you are meant to be. If you don't know what I'm ... should have been. It's a bit ironic, actually, that I'm an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  Fun fact number 1: I'm a drummer. You probably knew that, but you ... robots.Fun fact number 2: I'm an actor, albeit one with an incredibly short ... . (I'm splurging on the pictures and video, since my last two posts had

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  been very comfortable behind the wheel, and I relax most when I'm ... in the city. I feel that I'm pretty good about it, driving several ... decide is worth it to me, and one I'm still willing to pay for. However

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  Howdy fellow prefrosh, future MIT applicants, and MIT students!! I'm ... pulse. I'm used to the relaxed and sometimes languid feel of Texas, and ... <3 made a little speech! I'm going to be honest with you all.. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  . However, lucky you, I'm going to tell you what I've been doing anyway. I ... access to the online grading system for that class anymore, since I'm no ... 's one thing I'm trying to do this IAP that I haven't yet mentioned to you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Hi, I'm Jess L. '12. I met Yan during our freshman year (she even ... and generosity, etc. I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer ... ahead of you, Jess. I’m working as an editorial assistant for Angles (http

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  be, will never win me an Oscar even if I'm partially Al Gore. 2 ... , but I'm willing to bet that most of the movies I've slept through were ... !*) *Actually, I'm pretty sure this statement is comforting not because of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... think it's down that way, but I'm not sure. Just go down that street about ... days after I'd first met her. At this point I'm a little suspicious that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  sports (curling, taekwondo, rugby), and your intramural (IM) sports ... don't ever blog about what we do. Laura did field hockey, I'm in pistol ... , and I'm sorry if I missed any of the bloggers, but the point is

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  approved. I'm just trying to make everyone feel better about themselves ... years, and it's been particularly severe this semester. I'm sleeping upwards of twelve hours every day, and I'm still exhausted all the time. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  interesting. I'm a blogger, I blog about content that I like. That's why you ... other stuff that isn't stereotypical admissions pamphlet material. I'm ... entry I've written has been real. Now, since I'm allowed to write

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  England winter. I feel sorry for my friends at MIT, I'm sure my complaining ... , unable to pick out Iraq on a map. As I'm leaving, I realize that while in ... risk I'm going to have to take. Things I don't love about Spain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  . Paraphrased, because I'm too afraid to try to quote directly from memory because ... point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... frantically pack" because I'm not leaving until June 7th, because I got extended

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008