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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew ... (with a one hour break for lunch), and Friday, 9 am - 12 pm. The training ... begins tomorrow; I'm pretty excited about it! Aside from the EMT program

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled ... to share this site with you for a few reasons: (1) Christina said I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... and pair them with eight beautiful women in a competition for $250,000. A fairly standard reality show, I suppose. There are now versions of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  learned from a poster in my high school library when I was 13 years old ... intensive cultural experience for at least 8 hours a day, and I think I ... really cool dance to a rap song about counting. But even then, I can only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really ... classes I can take. Then, I sat for some Advanced Standing Exams after

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  . My Chinese name for Chinese I. You can call me Ou Jiaming ;) I think ... terrified me. I had never spoken a word of Chinese and now for an hour a day ... are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for ... can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  restricted elective that I get to pick from a relatively long list. In total ... , but that's a problem for Fall registration.    I think I want to ... halfway mark of spring semester. I stayed on campus this year, so I had a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... for later): 1) Do I need a mini fridge? Are you on a meal plan? If the ... I store my stuff in the summer? As someone from a land far, far away

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. This fall, I'm teaching again, this time a ... ). Resources: The IETF Request for Comments document series. Each week, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  ended up submitting a resume for a summer position. I got the job and ... Plushies in a toy exhibit for several months. I went and visited them a couple ... there's more! This year I'm a mentor/videographer for 2.00b so I get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  ?     I call it a Cessna 172 flying machine. I come from a ... 's where it ends. And now I'm a pilot too. So when last Family Weekend ... Admissions blogger. If you want to read a little bit about me, you can check

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  for A levels, can i ask my GCSE teachers? Or is that too long ago to ... interested in blogging as well for the admissions office, where can I get more ... science olympiad, etc., even though the applicant is from a region where

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  my professors--a move I’m pretty glad I took! Asking for help is ... TED talks. I had come so far from where I once had been. I had so much ... and only viewing the bad. I have a pretty good biology background from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the ... around them, how I know I can come home to a supportive group of people to ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  wearing a firefighter costume I bought off Amazon for a separate occasion ... . I have a fuzzy kitty, and I got a lot of candy from the various ... a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... , pajamas, or gifts for my sorority sisters, I always like to have a project

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  love the feeling of seeing something real emerge from a sea of math. I ... can shape and change [annotation note="i'm actually taking a really cool ... barely legit lmao (as in, it’s not a pursuit for me at all), but I just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... for, i feel like there's no speed limit. i always have a feature to work ... when i was waiting for pull reviews, i had a limitless list of tickets to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022