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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... exam is next week.  I have been studying what we've learned in class and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out ... liking tea. But now, I can be the sort of person who can go out with a ... of who I am now. Not like, in some crucially fundamental way (compared

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  brighter and I can see the first rays of the new day. I remember writing in ... the keynote address of my graduation in June. I re-read the speech and ... , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can ... -year-old behemoth I had pictured in my mind, but as a young adult who was unsure of ... made in my mind. And even the one thing I actually dug into, the Death of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan ... the middle of a boss battle in Zelda: Twilight Princess, so he locked ... him. Well, I can do that too. I got a little worried that the fire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are ... 's always open. I might even have cookies or pie. Those of you who want to be

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

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ; can't be stressing about working out. I'll start tomorrow. On Jan 7, it ... . On April 19, it means:  Well I can't fit through my door but that ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two ... on the ambulance this semester, one of which I'm currently on, and will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  -level classes, some of which you can get credit for (I didn't do any of those ... spent a summer back in New Mexico (can't get enough of that place) working in the Cognitive Science department of Sandia National Laboraties. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... most of MIT. I need to decide what I want out of my MIT experience. I ... shuttle, race a car, finance a project based on limited data in the face of

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  i was drowning in. i think, most of all, being in community with the ... things. i went thrifting in porter square with some of them last sunday ... in somerville's porchfest, which i somehow have never heard of despite

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  ’m stupid for asking so many questions? How can I ration the number of ... -campus? Can I afford to move off-campus?  Why are people wearing shorts in the ... , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that ... birthday explosion in Ben's office. And, most amazingly of all, I got to ... protocol or to finish a test we're working on, I can think of no better way

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... of it all. When I strapped on my helmet and pads, in my mind I had the ... of this squeeze I had left in front of me: Needless to say, caving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary ... , and here's what I did: 38 of the cards have a number underneath my name ... anytime I need to draw a beaver. 1 of the cards has my name underlined

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  . This is sort of weird because...well, I don't have much interest in going ... Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going ... 's sort of like when Columbia accepted me but I was already so psyched about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  of the final run of the paper weight so you can see the lathe in action ... fair share of building since I've gotten here (plastic bottle pirate ship, 4 robots, an Olmec, etc) but all of that used skills that I really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  of what you can do and be involved in. As you go through MIT, you ... Yesterday, a prefrosh friend of mine sent me this Facebook message: I ... organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008