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• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. She used a two ... in diameter and weigh more than twenty-five times our sun. She had the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzled Solution i think the lack of comments on my last entry might mean my puzzle stinks.

  

  after you solve the puzzle. Flavor Text: Lost in the jungle, Joe is ... items might help you as well. Fourth in Malibu Sands Summer Sixth in Raven Symone's 1st Third in Greek A + Roman V Thirteenth in Mr Tumnus

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts, but most recently I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm *definitely* majoring in 2 and minoring in BME. That's MIT-speak for Mechanical Engineering and

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to ... balloon pop out of the field in the middle of the Hahvahd-Yale football game ... in a computer program. (3) v. To use or operate something in a manner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  Hi folks, My name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions ... promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... informational pages are helpful in the same way that a college viewbook might be

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  , [annotation note="I’m only counting blogs that explicitly use the LaTeX tag in WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex ... shows up everywhere in mathematics. Wikipedia lists a few dozen famous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... ="alignnone" width="768"] what if we gathered in vermont and stared directly at the sun ... here are some of those who responded to me. Michael C '16 Here in Dallas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... to, especially when only two others in my close friend group are moving

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream school was Columbia University (sorry, MIT) because it was in the Big Apple. I had some romantic notion that my life would kickstart if I lived in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... bound to each other, constantly in orbit, trying to survive the most ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  weeks has been bullet points. lists in lists in lists. i wrote an entire ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence ... into this exchange program for imperial college london. study math in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of ... takeaway is that starting in around fall of 11th grade, I was constantly just ... first time in years. I spent most of the spring just doing nothing: taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... article, "never in Boston’s long and storied weather history (since 1872

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... paper for my [annotation note="21G.038(China in the News)"]CI-H class

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020