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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... . For example, a lot of people I live with really like climbing

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  later, I graduated in a building right across the street from Westminster ... maybe that's just what I used to think of, before I saw Carmen and The ... history, and I'm glad that it gets played regularly instead of stuffed in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... thought a tofu bibimbap would essentially be a contradiction in terms, but I ... restaurant in Jamaica Plains, a suburb of Boston. I haven't been there since

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... concept. With this in mind, I ended up translating a lot of this:   ... or condescending, and I felt like I should have thrown in more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  .03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year ... much get to watch videos in every class and check out various photographs ... . Aside from chasing a freaked-out squirrel through a corridor, I haven

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is ... . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a ... should care about it. I should care because it’s happening right here. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours ... those desires in a new way. I can confidently say it's one of the most ... understand what I want to study in the future. I'm also taking 17.307: Public

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  majority of my evenings. I had a big paper due in 17.40* last Tuesday, so I ... , frequenting them in cycles like what I did in the first half of this week. I ... and simple: "Should I be expecting an entry today? ;)" [name omitted by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... this deathly level in Little Big Planet! I visited my high school AS AN ALUM. I ate delicious Chick-fil-a and Tex-Mex food. I played (and lost

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  my head on a pillow for more than about 27 seconds before I completely ... !xobile Time: 12:48 PM Subject: long story I had a dream that I went out in the ... everyone at MIT is weird. But in a different way. I never thought that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i ... Laura and I have the same birthday. What's the probability of that ... busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  This was me about a year ago: Even now, I remember what it felt ... as I think about all of the prefrosh that will be checking-in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip ... some rocks to bang on the bigger logs like a chimp in a lab until I made ... thousand. Falling from the sky. Actually, I should take a moment to clarify

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  . "Hi Keri, In honor of your new US citizenship, I think you should write ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  . When I took a gap year before coming to MIT, my friends at home would ... me to walk a few steps in a straight line, and my dad said I shouldn ... 't remember much about it. What I clearly remember was my mom walking in on me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  . "well, what about having it online?" a pause. then: "i can book you in ... goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... around it, uneasily, like you're staring down a lion in a cage. (you carry

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  a small progress log about each day in my UROP. I've done this before ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... [/annotation]without a definite idea of what I want to study. I knew I wanted a biology

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week ... structures in my head more than I like resonance structures. But there was a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005