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• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... to see ya around at CPW, Laura. I wonder how much of a chance I'll have ... said: I'm planning to miss the Admitted Students party in my area because

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  you but it's like, I AIN'T EVEN MAD because you're in such a good mood ... that you Elaine-dance to. When I was in 7th grade, I listened to Celine ... where you can buy it. She never released it in the US

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  from the off-campus grocery store (which isn't on the card). I also buy a ... , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... around the room in your underwear. Not that I, um, know anybody who's ever

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60 ... habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... forced her to do that because I thought it would be a cool blog picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  thought you already took that class? Bryan: I did. I didn't realize how ... didn't finish the problem. I would have stayed up longer trying to finish ... So like Mitra pointed out in her blog this week, this week MIT

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  friend, accused of raping children and in all honesty I would probably tell ... would not have the library that I study in. We would not have the new ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery ... inconvinient, how do you think? A MacGregor room is eight feet by fifteen feet. I'm not sure how high the ceilings are, but I guess they must be at least

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions ... . stealing in that PUF used to scream at me if I didn’t leave an arm outside

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  entirely man-made. I had originally called this entry "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling?" but I figured that nobody else would get that either ... " became an important EPA goal. While this promise was not reached in time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch ... building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i ... coming into mit being so afraid i would lose over friends over how i ... know how to lose friends with grace. in a way, i am thankful for you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I ... Shanties. I read all 400 pages of this book in 2 hours in the McCormick hall

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  with z e r o cooking experience and I mainly would just buy ingredients ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... I am writing this from an internet cafe just outside Lusaka, Zambia ... just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... it more together than me). Worry #2: I became less sure I would fit in ... engineering department, but it’s just not something I would like to major in, so

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... . I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process ... outdated. This is how I went about the college recruiting process for soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  sky. (In fact, I pondered this in C Major, diatonically.) You might recall that I joined a cooperative living group in January. As it happens ... highways in the company of half-comatose housemates, I perused the 60 mph

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  thought of how annoying it would be to say I almost did the Monologues. How the one I’d written would linger in my google drive, not fully ... dye their hair. It sounded up my alley; I love writing, and this would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022