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• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  concert So sad. The best I can do is a photo from the concert: 2. Did you ... 's "official" biography from rhodesscholar.org (links mine): Jennifer I. Lai, Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you ... with this group/family/community and it has been a blast! To make matters even better, I learned a lot about music (which I wasn't familiar with

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... from home. I know people who go home or see their parents nearly every weekend, but those people are from Connecticut or New York. The trip to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic advisor's signature on a pastel triumvirate of white-pink-yellow forms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... 's, well, a statistics class, with a focus on neuroscience

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... .001 lecture from hell. I’m not even joking. So you know how the least fun part ... .001 lecture was one and a half straight hours of that basic concept. Only it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  Choir. We've even invited a Swiss choir from Lausanne to come sing along ... , including a crabcake, which makes me wretch because it's crab, but everything ... what not. I, myself, had no firm deadlines, but I had a 6.002 lab that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  . Protection from small insects 4. Never mistaken for a girl if somebody looks at ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We ... they'll let us, do a "Marching Band on Ice" show (no skates). Well, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  parking garage steps from the meeting location, and the campus is in a good ... Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I'm a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is ... yourself into a human being for the admissions officers -- and from what I ... I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... from enjoying and making each and every new interaction and experience

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7pm and bedtime: 1. Baking a cake for my friend Sam's birthday 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... literature classes and insists that spring is a time for regeneration and ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  extremely disparate nodes into a path that brought me from point A to point B ... throughout this experience, I was able to meet a wide array of people from all ... Committee on the Presidency where a group of students from all over campus

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  from at least three different HASS-D categories. Your concentration is a ... you from being able to pick up an extracurricular, or a job, or whatever ... heartily recommend a debit card over a credit card. Many of my friends from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... , there was a temple in the mountains. The head monk was advanced in his

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  from a test robot that everyone built in the first week of [annotation ... takes. It took a physical toll on me to teach from 8am-3pm every weekday ... ’t voluntarily buy a jar from the store. So after that, he’d make me toast with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  Hello! It has been a really long time since I posted :') My goal is ... starting from the last time I blogged, I think I'll start with where I am ... thinking about a lot is my major, Course 20: Biological Engineering. My

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I suppose. You start as a young adult, and walk along the pathways of life–choosing a career, getting married, having kids, getting promoted (or fired

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time, there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022