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• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I ... Z Center as I was getting changed for my evening run. Now, I didn't ... inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  enjoying my classes, or i'm struggling on a difficult problem set, or i ... , i'm doing a lot of academic work right now, more than i've done before ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  don’t think they’re thriving, but i’m also not really sure what thriving ... of new math but not a lot, and i don’t think i became a better ... - having a large datacenter won’t help you come up with new protocols, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  , you don't apply to a specific department, but rather to MIT as a whole ... from kenya." If you haven't enrolled in a bachelor's degree program, and ... ?? I'm a dominican boy who wants to get into MIT after finishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully ... about three hours a day. I’m pretty sure that I’ll never get all the ... It’s official: my blogging hiatus has ended. It has been a crazy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... checkout books from your public library via said e-book reader. First I’m ... uniquely American institution.  At a time when budget cuts across the nation

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  bean and garlic sauce. It is amazing. It will last me a week, because I ... friends are vegetarians. Now check this out: six months ago, I couldn't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  comments. We're excited to have you as a member of the class! We've spent the past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next ... and say hi to Ben, Nance and I!) It's going to be a wild ride -- fasten

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  World couldn't pronounce the Nahuatl word "ahuacatl," so they simply chose ... was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably ... school, so I didn't realize that anything was really out of the ordinary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  ? *sniff* I don't want to end on such a tragic note, so I will leave you ... Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... (LBGT) groups. (There could be more sponsors that I'm forgetting.) Gabe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  and hurt myself. It doesn't even seem within reach. I ask a better ... that's okay, because I'm (aren't we all?) in this process of finding the ... in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  ' vitals. Basically, this class requires a lot of work. But I'm definitely ... barefoot and promptly tripped over a friend's size 12 shoe. I ended up ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don't ... shiny white Elvis suit. I'm thinking this should be a challenge on next ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , which turned out to be a complete LIE, but it's too late - I'm hooked ... , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each week. The problem? I'm having trouble thinning the herd. That

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  your test. You also can’t just not study and expect a decent grade. By ... a hoop, then I know that I’m about to spend probably a two hours on ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  that having a broken foot doesn't mean you have to lie in bed all day ... , and received my first paycheck. I shared a house with someone I hadn't ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  was probably something like a 50% (I’m looking at you 6.046). There ... some of it isn’t, and so I’ll give it a shot. ** I heard my first Taylor ... puberty, and I wasn’t always in the greatest mood. I was at a point of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  phone gets a signal. (T-Mobile users, I'm writing this for you.) There ... year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... cards. Perhaps it's a good thing. Edward '12 recently borrowed my E&M

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009