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• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  circumstances in this blog post would be particularly different if I were at any ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... land in the Charles River. I carefully planned my route along the dock so

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... -Entry went on a road trip northward to Montreal. Beforehand, I thought it would ... quickly-edited montage of everything I filmed, including little bits in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  of clothes in a pile being sold at a dollar fifty a pound - and I think ... say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... surrounded by new people and a new dorm; in a lot of ways I was starting all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  no way I would ever join a fraternity. Pretty much the only images that ... life would be like had I not given the Greek community here a chance to ... Chair of the Interfraternity Council, asked if I wouldn't mind sharing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway ... Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  't, however, what I would call 'pretty uneventful.' Before I begin my little ... me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... , is something I greatly miss in college. I'm all for cardio and exercise

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  'You kill yourself,' so I'll just quote it in the annotations: 'YOU KILL ... .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  something which would be used in my work as an engineer. 1.00 (Introduction ... from other majors who come and take the class. I know people in courses 2 ... are others. It is basically an introduction to programming in Java. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  super-fun, but I would never characterize myself as a good, or even ... are usually in use when I pass by. Mens et manus in corpore sano and ... , inviting me to their interview weekend. So I guess that would be four all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I ... I don't even want to talk about in public, despite the fact that I ... prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but ... should) have been spent doing homework and studying, but in reality, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel ... . Unfortunately, there was a car parked in it, and removing it would require that we

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in ... whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of ... sort of behavior was typical. Now, I'm a little sheltered in this regard

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern ... spent frolicking in Indiana. When I think fall, I think piles of crunchy ... rink. I used to take ice skating lessons in Indiana, but all I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... stopped -- i have learned SO MUCH about real-world programming in the past ... the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past ... I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School ... an apple in one hand and a copy of Paradise Lost in the other, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... . I learned that there's a group in Arkansas, developing a glove for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  legs among both living and mechanical creatures, which I am printing in ... about, I would most likely fall to earth as well." --"So who knows if it ... Roger Ebert is my favorite film critic; I think he's got an honest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005