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• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation ... cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... one more all-nighter. The problem is, being a recent graduate myself, I ... realistic that situation is and chances are you’ll be greeted with a mixture

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  have a lot of free time on top of TSL (we were putting in about 5 ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... Summer We did a remote UROP and Frolicked in a VR lab Starting in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... to blog next. Sometimes it's just a quick update and everyone is like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... adapted by Glee in season 2, episode 5. I won't say much about Rocky Horror other than that it is very much an experience more than it is a show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  . Huang, Newark [Delaware], is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ... Kesem, a student-run and free camp for the children of cancer patients ... Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  semester gave me a little more confidence in my abilities to be a remotely ... school, I wasn't exactly a note-taking person. In fact, a teacher once ... wasn't learning much and was instead just being a mindless typewriter. To

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  ) then how much CO2 is produced by burning one kilogram of coal? I had a ... feel like I'm learning a lot. I mean, I'm sure I learned a lot in 2 ... is HUGE in scope. We tackle the energy problem from what seems like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some ... This morning, a productive time reading 8 (mostly excellent) applications. This afternoon, a less productive time dealing with bureaucracy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... good memories. One thing I loved about our dynamic was how much we could ... [/caption] I also loved how much ethnic diversity we shared. Together, we have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  "Running Store" category for the past 5 years. I'm not sure how much competition they have in this category, but a winner is a winner. The store ... do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  with a B-! And since freshman year is pass/no record, I was in paradise ... Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... of class a week... so since the deadline for our project is coming up

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I'm currently ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it ... fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  wondering, how much would a so-so interview hurt chances of admission in the ... schools." Is this still a valid/official way to send scores, just in case I ... sent in my online application. I'm curious, though. Is there a way I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  film is primarily a love story, but there are major themes of justice and ... -Pakistan conflict and how it continues to affect even South Asians in the United ... the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  the Macy's parade in a tee shirt. Actually, since that one snowfall, the ... nearly a week in email)... Shabin asked, "Will my family's finacial ... , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... . Everything seemed strained, as if we could sense how much the upcoming email ... literally wept in the center suite of my floor, a senior took my hand and told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... teach a bunch of aliens how to play baseball. It's like 50 pages long and ... . Somewhere in that scrapbook in the kitchen closet there's a newspaper clipping

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... individuals to us meeting people as twins was a lot higher than in the past. We ... then revealed that he, himself, is also a twin! Go figure! Danny: As

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018