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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  -mail after announcing that fact: "For those who are concerned, I will try to ... successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking ... chainsaw.  But, for the month of June, we worked together to code the game ... ).  Eventually, we, the UROPs, said goodbye to our schools, and gathered up for a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago ... I went on to Princeton Review, searched for liberal arts colleges ... attended with whom I will be friends for life. But it wasn't until I came to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of ... for CMS as much as I expected to. We debated for an entire ninety ... , which brings me great joy. I love to see the people I care about care for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  of this week, to be precise. Once January 29th comes and goes, I will no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be ... choice for where they want to live. The key to the whole party though, is ... (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  's always refreshing to see people get up and leave during classes for ... I've always been excited about finding new rec’ stuff to try out in college. Besides, as in the good ol' childhood times, it’s always fun to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  to see what changed for me and what didn't. Here are some things I did ... : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for ... 't, oops!); coded for fun (also meant to do that and didn't); wrote something

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  have to sign up for Glass Lab offerings through a lottery. The lucky ones ... ! They belong to the Course 3 Laboratory for Microstructure Design (due to ... and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... to do, whether it’s a chore around the house or something for work. So ... thing. I shouldn’t be waiting around for things to slow down, I should be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  back to California for a highly anticipated return home. I hadn’t had the ... apartment that she was to live in for the next three months. It’s nothing like ... all day to make up for the noticeable absence of air conditioning. Our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... middle school-aged son thought it was mean for someone at the Oscars to be ... been married to for 9 years, the father of my kids, and I was cleaning

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... to span precisely one academic year, rendering this system completely ... academic slacking. During sophomore year, I buckled down to work and finished

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the ... silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly ... Chris to good old American consumerism. I bought presents for my mom, my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of his presidency. Well, for future reference, I think it's best to try ... about 15 hours painting and this is what we've got to show for it. Ruth ... So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of ... “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT ... think its a good way to start, but there's no substitute for just going

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... I am able to grow facial hair to be my punishment for some inexcusable ... it--"I lost a bet," "for warmth," "to remind me of why I hate facial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  for you to talk, shake it off, and remember you will survive, even ... pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were so many wonderful applicants to MIT this year

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  how they donated money to your charity. For the business, it increases ... to do build up a startup of my own. Thanks to Bobbie Carlton for putting this event together and letting me know about it and to Bullhorn for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016