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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  brain cells. (*In the past two days, I've been taking study breaks to the ... . Tonight, my subconscious is in a recursive mood. I dream that I fell asleep ... this stage in the dream, I immediately wake up in real life, clutching a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog ... . The course, which recently has focused on the war in Iraq, is described

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... interesting to see "how the other half lives." I was grateful for the opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance for the screaming. :X) Holy cow. Considering how I spent last new ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... leaves…and pork belly, in massive quantities. I ask the nice man at the ... so I’d never actually learned how to make them beyond “haphazardly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  room: Hello, Charles River and New House :) I'm living in Mac ... campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this ... in lunch between lecture periods. If I see sunset, it's because I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  team in high school? Now you got me thinking about the regional and how i ... I'm not sure exactly how the emergency response system works in other ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  nothing and no one you will be better for it. I would tell you not to be so scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Shuttle/SafeRide Z Center -- the only place in the winter where I've consistently found ... coupon that I need to use soon Out in Boston Bank of America Pavillion ... Cape Cod -- or so I hear, I've never been; ask me in a week =) Coolidge

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts ... be likable in her posts. She’s not quite as funny as I am. I’ve still ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  entire campus in a powdered-sugar cast.   It’s incredible how ... Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  would be there, and what I needed to take to my dorm. I was discussing ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston ... 'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  are this year's seniors. Now I'm curious, how does the numbering work in ... their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... their blogs that the decisions were in the mail. I knew I could expect to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  week, I start a brief program with D.E. Shaw in their Discovery fellowship this week and I'm really excited! In addition to this, I am also ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing. ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying ... This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  dramatically changed when I began doing biology research my junior year in high ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as ... understand another world more than anything. After arriving at MIT in 2015 I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  've tried in I don't know how many years. I did... nothing. (But of course, in ... . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... in exactly whichever way I desired at exactly any moment. It. Was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  on Monday, December 15th. In the next few days, we will send EA applicants an email on how to access the decisions online; I will also post a ... days to come; thanks for your patience. In related news, I can announce

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice ... ! Something Old... The Nance Effect is immersed in the annual road trips

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006