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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  break for a week to clear our heads. It was a really smart idea, so I ... . It was amazing. At night I went to a showing for 21F.063. We watched ... "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  quoting fellow blogger Elizabeth. Every time I see a baby on campus, it ... to do. And I finally understood the appeal of a semester or year off ... change fields in a moment's time. I guess that's basically the case

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... , presented the work at a recent American Astronomical Society meeting, where it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  can be a little scary. I think it’s especially hard at MIT because it ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... ). This year I learned that rivers can freeze and that molasses is a deadly

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  team so much. I can’t wait to see what the post-season has in store for ... take a second to appreciate the people, the sisters, the teammates. I am ... Hey, everyone! It’s time for everyone’s favorite update… soccer

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  , and do bicep curls. Then what I can only describe as a tricep curl. Too ... attended a one-hour body sculpt class for the public. The next morning, I ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  for a better idea ‚Üí Overview of IAP 2010 From what I've heard, some ... makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull ... where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  apply for a radio show with me? Friday night, I went to a going ... , Wednesday, the pre-Orientation program I'll be a counselor for begins, and we ... won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  . I went to a comedy show and golfed for the first time. I went to the ... Somerville for the summer and spent a lot of time around Porter Square. I went ... and crackers regularly for the first time. I made pizza three-ways from

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  -3. I have a three-hour time frame in which I can grab and eat lunch ... brother, a senior at UC Berkeley, and ask for help. As I wait for him to ... down. I also worked as a bookkeeper back in high school for a local law

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... . The interviewee and I just trekked down Main Street for a proverbial ... 've had a glass of milk since 1996 - I mainly go for the walk and perhaps

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  by a carefully selected playlist. I look forward to the commute for ... .” Here’s a quote from it I love the most: "What most people don’t seem to ... wake up from a too long (but absolutely satisfying) nap. In my dreams, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... news. To be clear, this idea is different from the push to integrate a ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  best of both worlds - I'm a 10 minute walk away from the best parts of ... officers here, I'm known as the girl who draws things during class and has a ... bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear ... auditorium...and, well, you see where it's going. Now it's 6:55, and I ... moment I was about to take a flash photo. (Woah, that was close.) 7

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning ... One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students, faculty, and staff can go hang out and create beautiful glassware and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  MIT Navy ROTC student was ejected from the program for being gay, which ... always been a solid foundation for cooperation and source of support for ... order. I excerpt from it below: MIT’s tradition of national service is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  just finished gulping down a breakfast burrito. Back in high school, I ... can't take an exam without scrambled eggs in my stomach. I've been ... that I can to prepare. I'm going to start the 15 minute trek across

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  expensive ($48? for a throw pillow?), and c) Adam would hate. I headed back ... A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th ... off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005