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• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  can apply. right after i get my scores? i have 2 more years in ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  you can donate directly to the China Relief Fund, here. I hope ... I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all ... . Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab ... MIT, I know that many of you are currently in the midst of choosing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Engineering), and as far as I can tell, they were all quite happy with their ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... whenever i try to be productive on campus. i can't really explain it. it ... it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an ... obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  watching what groups they self-arranged in. I also didn't fully understand ... in quaint ponds. When we reached the province of Nova Scotia, I ... movie projector while soaking in the Airbnb jacuzzi. I slept well that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  MIT. I was gonna blog about classes, but that can wait until tomorrow ... MIT for being so accessible that I can get neosporin even at 1 AM. Mitra ... unsettling interest (just kidding, I love it!) in seeing my spilt blood, here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited ... , I found her and two more of my friends in there, hanging out, waiting ... nothing. It's beautiful and simple and easy and I can't believe it has taken

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... . Every movement I made- and didn't make- was laced with doubt: I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  . I still usually feel like I can follow along, at least, in lectures ... to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  will help the company after I leave in August because they can easily ... company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  fact that I can not swim. I visited Soweto, the largest township in South ... post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  example, in the context of blogging, I can write my blog posts on Notion ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban ... you can link databases anywhere. If I make a table in one page, I can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... these projects. So that's exactly what I'm doing! My friends in Oregon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... the issues it addresses. In his words, “I thought it might resonate with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora ... AM-11AM shift) can attest to: 8 AM - I open desk. 8:30 AM - No one ... Oshima (Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program), and I went to the MFA

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the ... if there are that many sensations in the world that can compare to ... sensation. If you've never been before, I really suggest trying it once in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014