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• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... early last Wednesday morning. In these last five days, I feel like I've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... -digit decimal figure. How anticlimactic. This last semester passed by in a flash ... -hour trip back from boston, i started and finished the brief wondrous

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  I'm not a big sports fan. Never have been. Nashville doesn't have ... Titans, and they only moved there when I was 11. In the past, I've only passively watched sports, when I did. I've been to a couple of baseball games

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I ... college. "I realized I had forgotten the joy of doing basic physics problems," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... Okay, so it's really 52, but who's counting? So far I've been fairly serious with my entries about the college admissions process. I think that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  [by Gilad Evrony '07] I think it was around junior year that it ... learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  how they shake— see, I never knew this until you left, how radio ... Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  honest, it's not like I would have been doing much else back in my dorm ... As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible moment, Registration Day (last Tuesday, September 7). I know some people

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  in your first year at MIT isn't how to integrate that particularly hairy trig integral, or how to predict the products of that incredibly complex organic chemistry reaction. It's how to ask for help. Help in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the temperature scales and wow is the difference visible. The CPW weather machine is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film ... Friday night if you're here for CPW! I quote, See the folks behind the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  how much it really looks like Evie. Check it out! The origami Evie ... February 21). I expect to see some nice entries; I'll post them when the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in so long! My friend Rose '05 came to visit ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I ... -- can you explain how The Mystery Spot works?!

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  improvement is part of how you can jump to the next step of adulthood. I think a ... This summer, I became obsessed with climbing. Climbing is an exercise ... you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I ... -to brunch place to catch up with friends. My significant other and I have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn ... (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  kept a journal during my travels (I knew that otherwise I would never be ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt ... For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... beautiful day and the sun is shining, so I really REALLY wanted to go to Red

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  's "official" biography from rhodesscholar.org (links mine): Jennifer I. Lai ... people, that would be the accomplishment of a lifetime... Jenn has already topped herself, I guess!) I was so excited when I heard that Jenn was going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010