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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... other things that draw their inspiration from the ether, like ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  to eat and most importantly, what to do with my life.  I've had a taste of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... tired after I get home from work and the gym to actually chop things up

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2:30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry ... about more than fibroblasts and the hepatitis C virus. From lab, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... , the last time I wrote, I talked about my work at a tribal-rural hospital ... my report, said my good-byes, and took a lottt of pictures with doctors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  roll across Massachusetts Avenue from Bexley, but these notes were the unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview. So now that all the interview reports are being filed, it's a good time ... would be the point exactly? Your interview report shouldn't be just a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty ... novel) and, of course, finals. Easier said than done? Yeah, just a little ... forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  from a ferocious piranha. The funeral for the fallen soliders of battle ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  bid from Sigma Kappa, what had begun as a joke became an extremely ... I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... from Joe '98's photo gallery. Crystle '07 was my freshman-year roommate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of investigative journalism he discovered that the Flying Tigers are from Kyung Min

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  So you all know that I come from South Florida. (And if you didn ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early ... posting anything over the last couple of weeks! Don't worry, a happy entry

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  'd leave you with a little musical treat that I received in my inbox this morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will ... now you're back From vector-space; I find you here with heat transfer

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or ... this year is 12% down from 14% last year. I know that many of you will ... selected during Regular Action. Nevertheless, The Nance Effect is a great

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  ="aligncenter" width="385"] from xkcd, as usual[/caption] ~*mmmmm pretend this is a ... immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep ... the view and instead had to lock in on my final projects. However, in a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens ... that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... this mailing list has unfortunately hit a steep decline ever since COVID

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison - here are, respectively, my firehose from the semester and my current IAP

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020