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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in ... can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in ... policeman in Guys and Dolls, I was able to disguise the anachronism of my hair

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... being published, I'm enjoying some down time in Taiwan. But today I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... ) will all be invited back in the spring, but I don't see how that ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  how exactly I got my meals. I knew I was eating roughly lunch and dinner and other meals every day, but I didn’t know how much of what I was eating was free, how much I cooked, and how much I bought. I thought making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... . “Hey, how old are you?” “Depends on who’s asking.” “I’m asking!” “Well

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... proliferation and cancer in adults? If we can figure out how the proliferative ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  . Then I took a nap. After my nap I fixed a rip in my pants, hooked up some ... , I can relate less and less and then I know it's time for me to go. And ... not be in charge of my own destiny #5: LOL. my gums are showing and I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... , fyi"]taking 66 units[/annotation]. I had probably hoped that in a future ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... !" That's when I realized the power of what you can communicate expressively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction ... can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for ... in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  could the past eight weeks have gone by so quickly? I can still remember how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto ... clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... , you can speed down Memorial Drive to Walker in maybe three minutes, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  admission in any way? 3. How can I access your answers to queries posted in ... /2 months(my Junior year) on exchange in Germany. How can I relate my ... . How do I change my address? Thanks!" Don't worry! You can either email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... day in 5.112 -5.12 -INTEGARLS* -3.091, or, How to Draw Pretty Pictures ... -Category Theory Please Don't Ask Me How I Know This -Save the Whales

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  studying, because most korean parents can be... In retrospect, I feel like ... our first exam next week, though, so we'll see how I feel about it then ... in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule ... Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  major in? How will that tie in to what I want to do in the future? And ... think about how I got these preferences in the first place, I realize that ... feeling I’m doing something meaningful? How much do I care about keeping in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in ... in hopes that I would be better by Monday, but when that didn’t happen ... advised me to ask for an “OX” in the class if I wasn’t feeling better by the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016