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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank ... can't really see in Boston), ran around in the snow, etc. And ... So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... seperate beds?" I can't speak for every dorm, but at East Campus, most rooms ... . Most people I know in doubles use bunk beds because it saves space. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... . :) I haven't done a Q&A in a while. I'm sure that the new admittees

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  yesterday in my favorite apron (I made the meatballs, and Adam made the ... , so I end up burning parts so I can cook the meat all the way through ... shaped the meat into a cube and stuck it in the pan. Then I shaped the next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  in Beijing called Linked Hybrid. Of course I had to see Simmons' sister in Beijing before I left, so I looked up the coordinates on Google ... behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  floor. From what I can read in Ms. Landlord, she seems like one of ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... , touring, eating lots. There in Chengdu, capital of the Sichuan Province, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  Well, I'm back in Boston, slowly recovering from jet lag, and am ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... undergrad four years ago. I am also adding in some reasons that I didn't know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in ... Science), and probably more fields in the future. I've also taken more 18 (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  can draw your own conclusions on culture at Stanford and MIT. Anyway, in ... policeman in Guys and Dolls, I was able to disguise the anachronism of my hair ... Trapp in The Sound of Music, and, try as I might, I could not convince the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... succeeded in this by reading The Alchemist and The Road, I quickly found

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  from august 2018, i can’t help but cringe at the unnecessarily harsh ways ... in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... like a canned statement, but it couldn’t ring truer for me. i wallowed

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  in fall 2022. god, I can't wait.   ... since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  like I can live two lives in parallel, and only make the decision after ... 't think the silence between us Means that I can't care less I'm careless, in ... person who can't live in the present. I don't want to be the person who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  around. If I can. In the meantime, I can at least tell interested friends ... final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I ... of SOC-STD 98LH. In the end, I couldn't take Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

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

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004