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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years ... 's against the wall, which at EC is a signal of being in authority: Schuyler ... that you can decide for sure which one you want to live in - I know you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  get in before I graduate and the ultimate success, FIRST AUTHOR. As for ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point ... , and for me, I find that in science and engineering. Inventing my own

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any

  • by Phi A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -that-other-actress-whose-name-I-don’t-remember”). And what you’re reading is an assignment for 21L.004 (Reading Poetry ... -white/non-hispanic character in the movie, Friar Lawrence is an old, “herb”-growing California ... or blatantly creates new ones. For example, something we discussed in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  August for Orientation, and you check in to your initial housing assignment ... Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear Muhammad Yunus speak. Dr. Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  issues and all), whether my thesis is feasible for an undergrad to do in ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  on Monday, I settled in on Sunday night around 10pm with only an ... California, I looked upon the bare bones furniture in my half of the room, now ... good deal of time in my room. Plus, having lived on the same floor for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  that their lesser than in the workplace. It shouldn't be okay for trans ... In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... down lofts] and looked for spare wood, and one Saturday my dad came over ... good reminder that I'm definitely not in Malaysia anymore. As for Cathy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  if you're an upperclassman). Let us know which dorm you get temped in ... As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers. All current MIT undergraduates are

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a ... my colleagues. Here we are stopping for lunch on the way in Mystic

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I ... should also be reasonably well-versed in it. For me recently, the goal has

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  notebook for what it’s intended for before worrying about how nice it looks ... model and pose for an hour while we draw them. Our sketch lengths increase ... things that can happen to an artist. It’s not that much different for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in ... Evie Contest: February 27, 2006 Ben is (in)famous in the office for his ... entirety) "It's More Than A Job" In response to an earlier entry of mine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... forms between an architect and the doctor who lived in his new lakeside ... Beouf). Followed by a documentary film crew, he leaves his home in Antarctica for Pen

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  So I was looking through my camera tonight, and here's what I found ... ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag ... the Harvard Bridge from MIT. We had an exquisite dinner of cheese, meat

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  have included in an email to Next House, ranked in tiers from most to ... . "Feelsbox" is a local word for an open-ended question placed at the end of ... "your", the 'n' stood for Next, and the 'f' stood for— Tier 3 (In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It ... other kids played—but he also had an unrelenting love for chemistry ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  commodify it, sell it for the blogs under some guise of 'relatability'. But in ... 's just finally settled in that I am a top college's influencer, not an ... and honesty with an audience when in reality that's not completely the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021