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• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  later and later. I wake up just in time to catch breakfast, which closes ... minutes, 29 seconds Sometimes, I know that I can make it if only I walk fast ... through denial, bargaining, anger, and depression until I have accepted in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  rocked and I think you should buy it. Actually, I have no idea how to play ... thing in the world? I leave this as an exercise for the reader. I can ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  carrot it’s very rich you can taste the faintest notes of red wine tbh i ... trader joes for the second time in two days (obsessed what can i say) and ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... - like when I want to go injure myself playing Frisbee in NH - that having

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... Institute. In the meantime, I'm polishing up a nice spot on my hand, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  assume I should put this in the optional essay part but can you verify ... at a hospital). How do I report this in my application?" For ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in her lab. I’ve heard you can ask profs for UROP positions after ... people. I'd talked with Ellen about being women in STEM, and how we'd found ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  and can be arrested and legally tried in court as an adult.” Whoopee! I ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned ... event planner in the world, or even in the suite in which I live, but we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry Workshop (red) in Building 66, on the other side of campus. Every Tuesday and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  Adam to teach them how to fly model airplanes. In the evening, I ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how ... , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ... comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... about Python since I feel I can always develop my Course 6 skills. Plus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like Never Before, and I'm really loving tracks 4 (Levi Schmidt - I Don't Mind ... Hey you guys! I recently had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Rustagi

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  happen. I included videos of the talks in this entry, and I highly ... board in early April, and it was wonderful. I remember one night when the ... said he was excited to be involved in such an event: "I was particularly

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... largest outdoor market in Africa. You can find virtually anything there ... sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016