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• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I ... about life. We played Terraforming Mars in the garage until J had to ... his car to his apartment, enveloped in gentle southern Californian

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  outline that might be colored in one day. It is even more wild to consider ... . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow ... i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  in ways that are overliteralized to the point of meaninglessness. For ... methods to get small amounts of data from very large amounts, while my ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... asked some of you to sit on it, in 2 days flat we'd have a flawless 30 ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  will save you money in the longterm. Break the rules to maximize ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  heuristic get to you. MIT fraternities are very different from fraternities in ... 've gone through Rush enough to get a bid, you probably already know ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I ... ! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this ... So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... report on ross gay's poems once, in 21.487, and he actually came here to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... -N-Out double-double, Tasty Burger would fall in the 4 to 4.5 range. In any case ... married to them (or be successful and wealthy in life, depending on which

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... festival in the Johnson Athletics Center; I got to meet some really ... 's really incredible to see the diversity in student activities available at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing ... (sorry, I had to rub it in). Also, that whole stereotype of British people ... Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  just so happy at these events and it was amazing to get together with ... minor in 14 [layman's terms: Management Science with a minor in Economics] What's next: Working as an analyst for Lehman Brothers in NYC for their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only ... about who you were and you get to enjoy the consequences. I hope applying ... accepted that application they were going to get the student they read about

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... they want to, when in reality they have lots and lots of things: running ... sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a ... four more to go. On Wednesday, after a couple school visits, I had the chance to have a picnic-style dinner with the Orange County Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... the hardest thing is which of them to explore. [...] We do things in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the ... been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... to 2005. Here it is used again in a rather informative 2006 blog post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015