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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... MIT philosophy. Finally, a note on the classic how did I get here story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture ... his guest check framed on the wall, no kidding. I paid in two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... still turn out well for you in the end. What should I do about the May 1 ... waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many students remain on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  more seriously in workplace environments, how to sound confident when I ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  with me here, but I don't really count grilled sandwiches from Alpine in ... . And they come with fries! How can you go wrong? I love all kinds of ... MIThenge. How did I know about MIThenge? My illustrious floor chair, Sam, of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... be cutting it a bit close. Hee. 2. Chris asked how I spent my summers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  some stuff in my mouth that I can NO LONGER FEEL. It's at this point that ... days, however, is just one of many things I have done in during my summer here in the beautiful Bay Area. (As well as chewing on my tongue, which I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two ... something very, very satisfying in garnishing soup with plants from your own

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  things that matter to me i never would've expected. in particular, what ... 't made the decision yet, well, i was once in your shoes. i didn't commit ... being in mit. despite that, i'm still happy i chose mit. the other day i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  Weekend. Last year, I waited four hours in the rain to see N.E.R.D. I would ... Hello all! I’m just popping in to show you guys a video from an ... East Movement (FM) to MIT’s Walker Memorial – you know, the same place I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas ... in the bleachers and watched the various events unfold. I snapped this ... / athletics / arts fairs, where I found Mollie (decked out in full cheerleader

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images ... I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... programming. I've got a background in programming, but they use Python whereas I ... lot of sense. All in all, I love this class so far. 2.002-Mechanics and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  was walking in the basement below the Infinite Corridor and I briefly ... 've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy ... in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... outside my own dorm window[/caption] It doesn't snow too often in my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  and now, where I sit in my cardboard box-strewn dorm room typing in ... without legs. It has no legs because I found it one year ago in a dark alley ... , furthermore, I strongly believe that there is wasabi powder in my eye. The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... Feb 20, it means: How did I gain 90 pounds? Aaargh! Gotta start soon ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014