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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "What if I have a beard tan line?". At the end of the week though, the ... November means a lot of things for different people. Thanksgiving and turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... that, I think, is the difference: there are so few tests at MIT that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  you decide to come here next year: most of the events at MIT have free ... 've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were out of your houses (MIT pre-frosh are busy people, apparently). So if I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  if I had one of these, my morning would have been different. 9:30 AM ... , Prevention, and Treatment of Human Disease So to tell you the name of the ... of a boy and his trials with energy and entropy. Directed by John

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... myself up at the bright and early time of 10am to peel some apples and ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  . Here is a photo I took of a collision at Weeks.[annotation note="as far ... of the above activities appeal to you, you can always, at the very ... rowing so I can watch you race at Head of the Charles next year! Eat a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... And birds go flying at the speed of sound To show you how it all began

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  STEM, STRAIGHT, NO MUTE) at speeds rivalling those of Hurricane Irene ... In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  lot of help from the whole world. The Pakistani Students association at ... at this time of worry, when we have been struck by Tsunamis, Katrina ... should be at the forefront of everyone's thoughts. For more on what Saad

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  of them for your PE requirement (yes, there's a PE requirement at MIT ... Classes you should definitely ASE or AP out of (or take at earliest ... almost targeted directly at freshman, which conveniently fills the gap of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac, and while that is probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into, there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  , used to get 'em Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em.” such ... some friends over iap (aka january at mit). one of the more awkward ... desires are currently a part of me and that, for now at least, that means

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ambiguous goal of being a college student not just anywhere, but at a very ... classes with the same demographics of people that I would at almost any ... I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  since freshman year of high school, easily looking at my 6.006 psets and ... clue. Really all I know is that at the end of the day, I want to be ... of late and it has me feeling really guilty. Blogging used to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  service, Artisan News.  Kiara put together this nice montage of our time at ... before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of ... every Thursday and Friday this summer, I hop on a bus to work at WGBH, the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  of their program. A company representative at a career fair came to MIT ... After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  are not above a little glee at the magic of science. 18.01, Calculus ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005