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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my ... students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership ... 's all about feedback. Feedback and self-assessment are effective ways to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  my finals and say goodbye to my first semester as a sophomore, and the ... combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... to Earth like Floo powder. The babies are after me, I think, as my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  get to make my first trip to Mexico. I spent a grand total of 20 minutes ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... route of the flight (Phoenix to Tucson) was over the desert? Just thought

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 't want to admit. After all, these decisions can be very personal, and the real answer could have been unflattering or cruel to those women. But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... -studying before I got to school that probably cushioned me from the shock I’d have gotten if I had to learn about natural logs and Euler’s constant and all

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to this... I'd just like to remind folks that blogging is not in my job ... - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... that range) and meet with their advisors to finalize their first ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  first season and they have to make everything flashy while conserving ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... . Eventually I got to know him as the guy who lights up any and every room and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  MOSFET in a first order circuit. When I got home, I still had to start ... , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for ... [annotation note="!!! time is going by alarmingly fast"]finishing our first semester

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where ... love now, as I listen to him drone on and on about distributed systems

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I figured it’d be easier to ask first before I lose myself in Stack ... I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to ... completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  happy and I make the choice to do those things — first because I deserve ... hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  first hour or so, until a seat opened up. Kathy sat in it until she had to ... "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets to have it. Items range from the boring (old clothes, magazines, etc ... bajillion mailing lists and never bothers to take themselves off of any of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports ... , field hockey, and all the other fall sports come back to campus to prepare ... ="aligncenter" width="442"] We had a team meeting to kickoff the start of preseason. Here

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... good that this world has to offer. this post is that place. here are some ... ? small animal skateboarding: at first i thought this was a pig. now i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020