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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  happens for a reason, and while you can debate the validity of that ... 'all that much), as a result of us farting around for an hour or so this ... peace with wherever I'd end up, and then opened a rather unexpected letter

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours ... .005 (Disease and Society in America a.k.a. my humanities class for this ... up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... rolls for breakfast. As I'm sure you know, these go very well with milk, but my milk was in a fridge on Conner 4 (along with my eggs, apple juice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary). Well, as far as MIT goes, I don't think that's true. For one thing, we ... , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... listen. this current winter break I’ve been averaging about a bath per day ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... do you mean, 'good morning'? Do you mean that it is a good morning for ... involved something about Obi-Wan searching for a "Kiber crystal" to amplify

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  England's forests for a respite; a cabin in a place like Sunset Pond, a pen ... the lake. After watching the stars for a while, we started discussing ... "](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  a single day (at least, for as far back as my phone’s log goes). I ... Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  the Johnson ice rink so far.    And now, for a montage of games: Tiny Brains, a co-op puzzle game being released for PS4 and Steam. You play as ... kinda surreal for me, because it was actual footage of a scene that my dad

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  feel bad for no reason, so maybe I won't ask a question in a class group ... In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... bizarre. The worst thing that can happen is much worse than a simple no. Don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  for a black woman- me- to say that she mattered- that I mattered ... I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for ... session. even though i ended up not applying for the program, i'm a weeb and ... a reward for being the first person to arrive at spring registration

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  ="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... , thinking about final assignments and projects for the semester, thinking

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty ... , and I stopped for a second as the chill of Boston froze me. I had just ... your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  one with residents that have a general appreciation for living alone but ... there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... ), and, after some housing algorithm magic, a couple months later you are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  Rick actually made those pants himself. It was part of a project for 21M ... So way back awhile ago, after I stopped blogging for extended periods ... Bryan's fraternity, ZBT, for…an 80s party. And as soon as I walked in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  applications (and a few months for many others), and I know right now you may be ... morning with a coffee! After that, I'm pretty much snacking on hi-chew for ... ergonomic--Scandinavian design for the win!--and I have a great view out of my

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... at a company like the one I am interning for now once I become a real ... " Another intern told me one day during work.  I've never been called a yankee

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... magazine. [*Just got to say that I have a poop-ton of respect for housewives ... The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6 ... groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... 's Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006