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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  . Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to ... was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but ... Jeannie, where she has to make a robot Jeannie to walk down the aisle with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many amazing pictures from last weekend and writing a super-awesome entry about ... is GORGEOUS outside, and I am a sucker for warm weather. Winter is nice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  , but hey, hey look at this: Booya. As most of you know, I'm a ... to imitate somebody else who uses it a lot) and then I forget that I'm ... ; I don't actually have it and I can't find it online, but if memory

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far ... *dynamic duo*, the audience couldn’t possibly choose a favorite). I think ... (a/n: My birthday was a few weeks ago! So this blog is just slightly

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... in a forest. I learned to shape glass. My remaining time at MIT wasn't ... be a permanent state, but it wasn't so bad. Sure beat being hosed as an

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  morning when you can't understand how e-mail works?" Heck, I'm almost ready ... a special guest teacher in 21M.302 because MIT is looking to hire a ... Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I'm ... . I just don't get it. Anyway, I thought I'd wrote a quick little entry ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  learn this anymore. Plus, engineers don't do math. Sometimes if I'm lucky ... , unbelievably, brain-screamingly difficult. I mean, it goes without saying that I'm ... then the #8 seed was Dave Shin '05, who is apparently like a superhero or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  (classes, research, etc) be remote, or cancelled if a remote version wasn't ... I struggle to balance when I'm a full-time student. By "struggle to ... routine. I'm trying to keep that up this year. I also want to nail down a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  a prime candidate.) While I'm rolling with this fantasy, I'd also add ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  . Plus, I'm sick of running, I'm not in such a hurry. I don't even know ... immediately following a thermodynamics test) Me? I'm not really that excited ... that my full attentions will turn to a course 8 degree. Hey hey don't get

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  working on this for a while: I’m studying in-context learning, or the ... Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• 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 ... -burning." A little alarmed (the Party?) I changed into shorts and a t-shirt, and ... class, and walked to the DuPont T-Club Lounge. The T-Club Lounge has a

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

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  (those logs in there are actually trees, and I'm standing a good way back ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  , so this doesn’t have to be a particularly difficult project. but if you ... from composing for 21m.301 and from arranging for ohms, is that i’m a ... apparently i haven’t made any blog posts about classes yet so here

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  orientation, I broke down crying. Despite the homesickness, there wasn’t a ... become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only I'm working toward a ... . But hey, don't get me wrong - you can do a lot of other things in the ... . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion ... , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... than grad students, or something (I don't know why; I work half as much

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  California. If you can't trust a student blog on the MIT admissions portal ... Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005