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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non ... dinner we headed down to Maggiano's Little Italy in Boston--a trip made in ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... .014: Calculus (single-variable) with Theory. Join me on a journey to 18-014 and ... entry to a helpful staircase. Gotta have a Coke down there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front ... head about whether to censor the names on these posters. On one hand, a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn ... considering taking a Leave of Absence, compared to MIT students. This ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could ... movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  (REST). Despite my majors, I still had to take a Biology class that was ... program I’m applying to, and expressed concern about not having a technical ... your opportunities or access to resources. In conclusion, here is a list

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight series. A thirtysomething dad was scrutinizing a copy of the fourth book

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... section that meant a lot to me, though, was: "no matter what, do not let

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... front of a group of people, after all. But I decided to go through all the ... light to be pretty" "Have you tried going on a boy detox? Aka being not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... Ball and a Coming Out Ball to celebrate coming out day! Queer West Queer ... have a GAY ™ group chat where we are slowly* planning to enforce our gay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  to has involved me working on abstract problems with my head in a book ... didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of ... , which turned out to be a wild educational experience. I learned vastly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on ... somehow manages to be adorable and make a 1.5 hour 9:30 am class interesting ... . On this particular day, Prof. Spector decided to start the class with a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to ... 's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one ... percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it ... of civil engineering), I was moderately refreshed. We decided to take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to ... (we have a 15 minute break halfway through our long 3-hour lecture) to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023