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• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in ... Joe mentioned Les Mis in his comment for my last entry, I thought I ... So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  -stem classes — there’s an entire department of folklore, for example, and another ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in ... sophomores that prepares us for success in the workplace.  Throughout the year ... searches and in preparation for the summer and the future.  UPOP also holds a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  signed up for an audition slot for Cabaret. In the four weeks of IAP ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... with no regard for other people’s expectations. So success in writing, to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  -off for an A might be 90%, or 70%, or lower, or higher, depending on the ... UROP for pay, even as a frosh, or work at desk in your dorm and do your ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... . 2. I got an A on my Pulitzer-worthy essay for German I, "Mein Freund ... BASF online. I want to get an internship in Germany this summer through

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  said: legit. For about an hour, the Visiting Committee listened to us ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT ... following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Anna's and bumping into Shamarah '12 in the Infinite Corridor, we arrived at my recitation for 5.12 (organic chemistry), where I spent an hour ... Student Center to pick up my very own pre-frosh, an awesome guy from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  So summer kind of comes to an end today. Orientation starts next week, and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... spending time in Boston is an exciting setting change. Wherever I looked there was an immense diversity of people, some of whom were quite... for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  , for living in a suite with friends next semester, and adding new ... music that was once playing in my ears turned into an ugly, burning dull ... Gogh’s Starry Night, the source of inspiration for a mural I painted in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  essentially in four voices and only used the manuals of the organ, for violin ... errors, having written the song for twelve hours, but no). In the end, it still wasn't enough to earn me my favorite grade in the class: an A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  everything you need for an email address in the Next Big Mailing, set to go out ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well ... to stay in the dorms over IAP? Do the dorms close for winter and spring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... an improv activity to get us loosened up mentally. Then we get to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  fields. and i love it   it’s quaint tucked away in an abundance of ... an ice cream shop together when i passed them, with ice cream in one ... this summer, i’m living in a small, cozy house out in the medieval

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to ... processing the fact that I'm leaving my home in Boston for the next six years ... it. For any reason. I turned away from the screen in utter disgust like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... situation is able to apply for aid at any time during an undergraduate’s MIT ... responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  given an outlet for my energy and creativity that my classes didn't always ... the one in charge for one more month, but in effect, they had already ... their a cappella group, or run an ESP program, or be in charge of running

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually ... . My parents, in all their fear and love, were always there for me in ... NYC for the summer, it made me sad that mine was spent in…   [carousel

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  , mindful, intentional. Last Monday for Veterans Day, I slept in, went to get acupuncture for sudden pain I was having in my foot, did some ... stay in with an Airbnb host, greeted with thee most welcoming Southern

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018