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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  …it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge ... …and these expectations can drive you insane!) The same principle applies in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  , she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in ... in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M.I ... University in England. "I'm tremendously excited," Anahtar, 21, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  distinction.  There are, however, important qualitative considerations in how we ... ."  Instead, I have to hope that making you aware of our interest in the water ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  'm doing good work that i can be proud of, and like i'm contributing a ... Cyberspace. I am also thinking about this week's topic in CMS.701, echo ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  in the class, has been pretty chill so far. I’m sure I’ll be eating my ... about in an upcoming post. I got cooked to death on my last midterm but it ... semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... . I chose to concentrate in Science Writing. In Spring 2006, I took an ... If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... I will do everything I can to fight for equality for my race. So next

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a ... out in order to follow new friends around. I felt, in addition, that we ... than an hour. In a similar way, I committed to working out: gym, twice a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be ... . Others There a few other groups that I'm not very involved in. There's a ... is a close friend of mine (I live in a single now :sunglasses:) He

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a ... live in Simmons Hall, which I like to describe as living in a *very* nice ... DAY IN THE LIFE by Technique: I am the Managing Editor for Technique

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  ), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in ... test can sometimes be a very good thing at the end of term. Second, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  the rest of the night (morning?). I was, in fact, sitting around not ... luckiest person in the world, because one of those things is my career. And I ... major, biology, 'useless'. Shocked, I asked her to elaborate. She felt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  : :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... onto the dock, all I could think about was how happy I was at that moment ... Twelve hours ago, Mathura '12 and I had the following gchat

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  the cover, the pad of post-it's I carry with me at all times in case I ... /early fall. cooking: Although I lived in a cook-for-yourself dorm this ... , and I do enjoy it. So, now that I'm living in my own apartment this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I've got a pain and I know that it's all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do all I can but I keep on getting ... grades Take me away, warm summer days I've got a pocket, got a pocketful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  ="attachment_115835" align="aligncenter" width="600"] As you can see, I was in the ... course, I can't slander the good name of Janet without giving her a chance ... this as the reason for why i haven’t written anything in the past 3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... ... how difficult is it to pick stuff up? As far as picking up programming

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006