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• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  soon. Long weekends always kill me. They are a gift, but also a sharp ... scared me a little bit. If you're Facebook friends with anyone between the ... 's important to me -- family, friends, health, happiness, and avoiding

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated ... /11/11 was the most universally auspicious time for me to contact my ... relationships with them. Once, MIT sent me a Valentine’s Day card. I sent one back

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my ... product comes out the top of the column, but is nowhere near the desired

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  of LGBT Services and a strong advocate of the campaign, talked to me ... for nearly 40 years. The mission to advocate for LGBQT members of MIT ... . They've been doing a heck of a job. Abigail told me that attendance at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to conclude that nearly everyone who entered the contest is fated to become an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  /no record. I really didn't know what to expect from the advising system. Near ... . Class conflict. Sounds serious. I emailed Mr Kennedy and he guided me ... really make me confident in knowing that he'll be there whenever I have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  , until one of the people started waving at me - it was Cody! I hustled over ... Liz, Cody, and me that he was going to be heading up to the roof of the ... course, we said yes. Although it's hard for me to recreate the impression I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  that being a blogger obligates me to be, of course took pictures. There ... familiar with these types of drill bits, let me put this in perspective for ... may think that shop vacs are lame, but let me tell you, this is one

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  particular case, people who dislike the color purple because the girl before me ... senior who lives in the room around the corner from me moved out at the end ... valentines on their doors: I almost died from the cuteness; seriously, nearly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that ... two are out to get me. You'll never get my wisdom teeth! Neither of you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  , these Course 2 (MechE) majors made a spot for me and my disdainful poetry ... . Drained by the calculations, which to me just looked like hieroglyphics ... something along the way. It’s fine by me, because I heard an amaaazing

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18 ... , Dorota '10 said the same about Course 8, Physics. As for me, I've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  means to me: ) Upon arrival we could tell the competition was going to ... success or failure rested heavy on my frail but determined shoulders. Me: "Get out of the way let me do that." Jesse: "Ok." Me: "How do you do it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on ... my door to tell me that Caltech had come to retrieve their cannon and that we were throwing a party. 2) Brian '08 called me on my phone to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  . 2. Arturo asked about Mexican food on and near campus (also about more ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students ... Adam and me restaurant recommendations, although Adam and I are boring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  dizzying altitude near the pinnacle of haute cuisine. It's so haute, it ... -like foie gras cr√®me brulee with slow-roasted strawberries. What follows can ... strata, lift it and bite down. I nearly have an aneurysm. “Jess!” I gurgle

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed ... , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how ... looked at me slightly expectantly, and I finally answered - “Six years

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  with me tonight voices the entirety of her internal monologue aloud even ... , cereal, and toast, and the little plastic squares of jam that remind me of Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  class. The first test was altogether not that bad for me. However, it ... I'd failed the test, even though I'd studied hard; near the end I took ... senior, who asked me what was wrong; I told him I thought I'd failed my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020