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• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  ! Headers: Show All Headers Hey, B-C students! In conjunction with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  People often seem to think that going to an elite school, particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that undergrads are destined to get short shrift. Apparently…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing something short about the last…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Part II, problem 2b.) But hey! Please don't worry about that! This is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are probably at least dimly aware that I’m a cheerleader, I never write anything about cheerleading. (To…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  piano and b) sight-singing on solfege. 21M.401: MIT Concert Choir -- I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I’m a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is going to be brief — the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  separation of the hands as possible b) slow typing speed to prevent and key

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester, because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very favorite day of the semester…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn’t gotten the memo. Although I have been watching…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that’s not strictly true. Today should be…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I’ve noticed an abundance of ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I’m a…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  restaurant called b.good with Nadia '08 and Jessica '08. I've been trying to

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after freshman year. It’s sort…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the spaghetti and garlic bread — good…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading room of Hayden Library… one of a very short list of places where I…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I’ve been keeping journals since I was 9 (I’ve always liked keeping ridiculously detailed records of my life… I…

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  apps. Hope you all are having a great weekend. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  with the IMs. Baker fielded teams in the A league (varsity-level), B and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004