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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this question a lot over the last few weeks. And rightfully so, it's really been a ... not get easier through the years. Here I am, a junior (crazily enough

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... ’m living in an all-female house (the Delta Phi Epsilon house!!!) across the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... awake to hang out with. The only time when everyone seems to be asleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  with their summers, I solicited updates from the French House mailing ... , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... -inch refracting telescope was the second largest telescope in the world ... astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  -ray room while wearing a paint-stained grey sweater and sweatpants. The ... Sam to go with me. The exchange went something like this: Me: What are ... laundry. We carried our dirty clothing to the laundry room dressed like this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  I just came back to my dorm room from all the graduation hooplah. I ... the class of 2012, there has always been one elusive item that confused me: #5: Understand the true meaning of IHTFP. The five letters of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of 2015 about something you should be thinking about over the next few days ... was the eldest child, so I was making things up as I went along. I knew

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit about all the activities/groups that I'm involved in at MIT. However ... A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... apparently represent the largest college applicant pool ever nationwide. As I understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  The Annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake: Sunday, October 23 in the Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... Sunday the 23rd at 3:00pm in the Porter Room. Winners will be announced

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... that he intimidated the professors on his thesis committee by showing up ... the time, donuts and coffee would be served at a 10 AM thesis defense

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... moved all the way across the country, from Southern California to the DC ... our households that may not be the best for studying and working. We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  --</p> <p>The World-Famous, Nationally Renowned, Often Copied But Never ... --</p> <p>It's the One, the Only, MIT MARCHING BAND ... ="http://www.youtube.com/user/MITmarchingband">YouTube Channel</a>.</p> <p>This is, in fact, the 30th anniversary

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  Career Week. Events of Libraries Week include: Photos with Tim the Beaver ... ) Classes MIT Geocache Photo Exhibit Food for Thought Beyond the Library's Walls: Tools, Services and Solutions (You may remember the affair someone

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw another circuit. I know some day in the near future I will miss this. This year, I am a senior. Most of the friends I first made here have all

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems ... friend who urops at my lab about our research over gluten-free cake in the ... of the sink. I'm going to miss nights like these. Then we trekked to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  touch with one of my favorite English teachers - indeed, one of the best teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... along the way. (As for the other stops in Texas - Dallas/Ft Worth, Houston, and El Paso - Kim has been hanging out there!) Well, it's off to the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and ... Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008