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• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  . Sleeping overnight in the public areas of a House (e.g., lounges) is ... questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... all students of the room/suite in which the guest is staying. The host

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  . Weekends have been staying relatively free, which is great. I went to Boston ... free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It ... . Class has been going well. It's a significant effort commitment, but it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  his Virtual CPW Project is a great way to conclude this entry ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... . After eating, we left our hostel and found ourselves in a fruit and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has happened since my last post - I stopped being a teenager, I went to San Diego, I discovered Rebecca Black (and am forever scarred) and I received a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a ... non-technical fields, too. I know how to write a specification for a ... different person than the Maggie from 2008. When I came to MIT, I lived in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  trying to be somebody they're not. But how is this relevant? In this day ... email inbox. You begin asking yourself, "Exactly how much help do I need ... what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  architect be placed in a particular climate change context? Is there a way to ... probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... : the micro-internship and the class. But even then, “having time” is a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  have to spend with a single fraternity in order to get a bid is almost ... 't take it for a million dollars. You will always hear people say how much ... as possible and decide whether or not they'd like to live in a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT ... ester, is not a productive approach. Here's what we French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  bloggers (Alliteration! Woo! Sorry if that comes across as vain…). In a few ... , until this summer when I officially moved to live in a hotel (aka Maseeh ... building a fort out of pillows, a rollercoaster, or room decorations. In high

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern ... since: how industrial Britain and Germany cast [annotation note="a pre

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... for me, anyway, writing poems is a way to become grounded in reality ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him, judging by how many times I heard that "good neighbor policy" story ... to admit to how many episodes of MTV's Super Sweet Sixteen I watched in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a ... feeling it. In all honesty that is how most all of my writing goes. When it comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a ... 's Green Building Challenge implemented a diverse variety of strategies in ... , beating the other nine teams by a huge margin. In last place, team 41W

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and ... 'd say that just as much of my time is spent feeling like this: ^^This

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a ... (N), of successful free throws she has made in her first N attempts of the ... than just a yes or no answer here =) For those of you interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a ... perform between showings. This is, of course, talking about a group that ... down in 'e d i t' by Samantha D., MIT Class of 2015, a series that takes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  my writing now and am kind of sad at how stiff it is. There's not a lot ... writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... this is what worked best for me. It's typically better of a supplemental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019