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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I ... easier (shoot, three more days!). Anyhoo, I'm going to be covered in fur in, uh, oh snap, five hours, so I think I'm just going to wash some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to ... popular tropes in horror films, early horror genre movies would often explain more than the modern movie-goer would feel necessary. In addition

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  the speech, and thought how perfect it would be if I threw in a “Bon ... history. I grabbed an excerpt from her autobiography, “My Life in France ... international readers) February day in Boston. I got on my bike and just explored

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  slipped through the narrative cracks. - In mid-February, I boarded a bus ... my trumpet with the orchestra. Ten years later, I prayed that I would ... ' various affairs. In principle, I don't have anything against putting two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  's always nice to see the median voter theorem in action. What courses would ... would take CMS.410 Popular Culture in the Age of Media Convergence ... Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  deserved to walk those hallowed halls of MIT. I would NOT have made it ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... I showed up, she took me under her wing in a heartbeat. She taught me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  loud with wailing. But in that moment I think it would have been too ... anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... a depressed character, Kate Gompert, in the book, the more I realized

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  would I willingly slog around the campus in a large group in the pouring ... orientation and jumped right in, learning the campus as a student. What did I ... most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to ... freshman year. (resume anecdotes) While I tell myself I would come to MIT ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  's realizing what's important and what has to be done in order to succeed. I mean ... with his African ancestry in his summer visits to Minnesota. "I have ... , and if I don't, I will be disappointed in myself the most. Far from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin ... could build in their beautiful Arts & Crafts style. I still have the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind ... , things would improve. Even sooner than that, I would catch up on sleep ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  countries – in Canada, or the UK, or France, the signs you see would read: Red ... than me >:("][/annotation] Course? 14 and 18. (In which I usually ... interest you in games such as [annotation note="cj: i learned the correct

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  I saw fireworks from the freeway… Happy 4th!

  

  are just beginning. Oddly enough, I'm in lab, but later this afternoon, I will be participating in my first ever VEGETARIAN BARBECUE. It ... it. Last year, some friends and I celebrated July 4th by barbecuing at

  • by Bryan
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , I would be interested in hearing the opinions of women studying ... in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005