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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  (Keep asking questions! I'll answer them next entry.) 9:30 AM: Woke up. Wondered why anyone would ever be awake at this time. Wondered why ... at pool edge and contemplate reflection in water. Wondered why awake

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for ... talk I submitted was unceremoniously declined. After we moved in 2021 ... competing bids. I hit up a grad school acquaintance in my new city who never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  topic. Being in student government, I know a lot of people from a lot of different dorms, and I've discussed campus issues with a lot of people in a ... , in fact, "more traditional in terms of college atmosphere". I doubt you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  to put in as much time and effort as I would have liked into each one ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target ... miles at least once every day for four weeks. I started to feel pain in my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  . I haven’t slept in 2 days. So last night, I had 3 Monsters, and I just ... . In the interest of full disclosure, I have had a mild crush on him ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  you should download and test out in your first few weeks of college. I ... 's larger than your computer screen. I use this a lot for the jobs I do in ... 're also backed up that way in case I ever lose my phone. You can also share

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  snow I've ever seen, and I've still been trying to figure out how to ... 've figured out how to wear what I want without dying from hypothermia, I ... lights. Simply put, we had cabin fever. I'm a California girl who hadn

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... the 2013 Facebook group, which I knew would happen. (I'll leave you all

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen ... it "Xena." That's so cool. But I bet MIT would have come up with an ... 're definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  , saying “hi, my name is…” more times than I ever have at any point in my ... I'll remember their faces, spirit, advice, and aknowledgement. In the ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . And, huh, leaves are falling as I speak... type? I would go take some ... , I'll have a diploma in hand and some extra lines on my resume, and it ... , well, that would be quite something. Maybe TEAL is really a step in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Every time I give a presentation about MIT, I always try to emphasize ... addition to this wonderful community. I really love this place. It's all ... Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  in my physics classroom for a late-night review session. Somehow, I ... the second I saw this picture. In chem class on Wednesday, this reborn ... Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in ... past week. Like many freshmen, I was participating in one of MIT's many ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for ... jokes aside, I am actually sick, and I haven't been this sick in a while ... didn't pre-register for it until I figured out my schedule in mid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  Ever wonder what a deep fried McChicken would taste like? How about ... attest to just how terrifying delicious re-deep-frying deep-fried food is ... piece.       Both my roommate and I hosted prefroshes, and we both

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I ... students at MIT, and next week she and I will be presenting about our Maker Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in ... . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a ... Snapchat story), so here we go. The day before I left, I had to squeeze in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016