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• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  obvious culprit, but I can't help but mention some other preoccupations that ... just a little bit; still can't get over how exotic edamame sounds. I ... -walked along the Charles to put in some minutes for getfit@mit. I was happy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  (many) are from dorm mailing lists – the topics in those can range from ... I'll actually read, I still get kind of nervous when I can't check it ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In ... . In fact, I have a free hour on Fridays before class in 10-250 (right ... . In fact, they were incredibly interesting-looking!! I decided on the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  if I can find one that fits in my schedule and one that I'm interested ... I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  majors (this post is long overdue, I know). In the mean time, if you can ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... it's nice having this bit of context i can share with my friends ... , personally, have seen this in the world outside mit. but it is in mit i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  So I live in Burton Conner, like some other people, but I happen to ... that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... . This isn’t a big deal in normal life- I mean, you just exercise a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I ... reproduce right now; I am typing this at 2 in the morning on May 30, and there

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... : during my last therapy session, i asked my therapist about how i can go ... said. "i think it should be on your chart? maybe you just can't see it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  This Crummy Place, and Trying to Escape This Crummy Place. I can't find ... , I really love all sorts of theater. I'm not talented in any way in ... held in the Stata Center in a large auditorium with soft red chairs, I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  confident in what I want out of life? I don’t know. But all I can do is keep ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... zillions of essays. Over and over again. I literally wrote something in the ... out quite a bit about myself when I was writing essays, so it can be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  , I applied for an undergraduate research position in the Media Lab. As ... it to make a program that did things on the Internet. In fact, I ... it being. After all, it's just a ball with holes in it, right? I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  years here, I'm going to be leaving MIT in July. I'll also be leaving ... how deeply I love the place, and at this critical moment in its history ... . One thing is certain: if I am invested in you - and you know who you are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  show in the past year can come, and cast his or her vote. There are four ... 'm writing my thesis, which is in product design. I'm taking 2.72 - Elements of ... interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  excite me, and I can see the direct utility in the material I'm learning ... , even the most excruciating failure can become a valuable asset.  I know ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... Conner in the Class of 2024 Discord. Most of the questions I got about BC

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  REUSING some of the pictures I took for the viewbook.) A double in East ... graduated last year, I believe). A single in New House (German House): A single in Simmons Hall: (there's a window under her desk. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007