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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... . I want to put up an entry highlighting the various awesome things that ... want to (a) be famous, (b) brag about your awesome summer, (c) help show

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  turned out to be apple blossom petals. Last week was Bumps week, which is ... behind them catches up to them (bumps them). The first boat across the ... entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world, I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... associate at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge. "I've been known to hit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  straightforward, actually - play some good music for people to enjoy while they work ... anything to do but yell, "OH MY GOD WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE WHAT NOW ... air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to questions, so gold stars to them! I'll repost the questions and answers here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... and it's snowed 15 inches. Oops. I'm trying to decide if I want to venture outside to go to the "happy hour" with grad students from 5-7, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay ... may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring ... Clay inside a television, or what this has to do with TV Guide or why it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very ... all wrong, and then asked us to consider, “Where the hell are you going

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely ... did not have enough time for everything I wanted to do this past

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up-front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself ... nine classes into online registration, making sure to keep an even mix

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... this post: Birth to ??? 5th Grade?: Whatever's on the radio/whatever my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  situation at MIT. He’d already heard (it’s hard not to be constantly plugged ... tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  : recycling! So, welcome to "Flashback: Part 1," where my older and wiser senior ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... ? When I do get to MIT, I'm planning to declare Course 2 (Mechanical

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as many materials to learn as possible, which is noble but very messy. Every

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  —and all others forced to bid periodically for their next opportunity ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT ... people who indicated their availability. I then remember that I forget to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  . They had little booklets at the front of the library for children to log ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... -18, the “booklets” changed into strips (perhaps meant to be bookmarks

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024