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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  Well, I spent my 4th of July in Plymouth with Adam's family and my ... dying of hunger) feta chicken, and our friend Mark '07 manned the grill ... actually do make some regular hot dogs now, but that's only because of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan ... good friends of mine got it all started again and threw one off the ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  charity banquet called Grains of Rice This year's featured band was Cake! I ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  can begin. Of course, all 483 or whatever events that people have at CPW are awesome. All of them. Here are some especially awesome ones that ... some of my incredibly dedicated colleagues in blogging, but I have an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since ... the duals portion of his competition, and would have won first in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... with us. About the number of people who share a room, freshmen generally do most of the sharing. (I don't know much about how it works after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... a great time and had some good crews (was voted EARC coach of the year ... 't change any of it. I happen to love what I do every day. I am still active

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  the chapel and it lasted five minutes instead of 25), East Campus built a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the ... version of which happens every year, has a freshman in it: "Do you think

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... trend of a given math class introducing a concept, like parametric ... 've memorized the musical and [annotation note="and absorbed about 60% of it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... interesting, but I feel a little bad about counting 14.03 as one of my eight

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... into the void of the interwebs…also shamelessly quoting ourselves in same post that this quote comes from) Well we held our end of the promise, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are simply impossible to answer outside of selection committee. To everyone who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025