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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I’ve been back in my dorm for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  love and f**k the rest. There isn’t time here for anything else.

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  So I just read Ben’s post regarding the official release date of early action decisions. SIX DAYS! Six days! Man, that’s a short time. When I was your age, we…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it was a great community where I still hang out and pset at frequently, Next made…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  in the MIT 100K competition in 2006. We got to the semi-finals and then

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  It’s pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox fever. You have an excuse if you’re like Brandon ’11, who’s from Colorado, but other…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I’m writing to you with absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It’s as if all the feeling…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  (So honestly, I wrote this emotional post about my first year at MIT on the plane home, and then got home and found out Sam had written his own totally…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I’ve grown and other such…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  I know, I know, it’s been like eight years since I wrote anything. I promise I haven’t fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though, is taking a…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It’s hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school when I wasn’t totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was pretty much it for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his memory. Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve had anything substantial to say; finals hit a few weeks…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It’s funny how when you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  1. So my sister bought me a bike. It’s a used bike, but it’s still red and shiny, and it works, and I need one because I live as far…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  , Bryan had the awesome idea that he, Mitra, and I would go as i^, j^, and k

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  Cheney, but he also did material about computers freezing and Y2K. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  I’m a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it’s my favorite class (and not only because my TA is…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last 24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which was written by my…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis ’10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge. They haven’t…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006