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• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016, where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... who lived there already. I’m happy enough there and I like many of the ... anyone should ever actually contemplate making a profit. So I’m hesitant

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  as possible before returning to the real world. I'm living with three ... new to me. Trying food is a huge part of my experience here. I'm ... other boroughs -- even if I'm caught doing touristy things on Coney Island

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming ... class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to ... are so many classes I've taken in my life where I'm just like - okay, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  , this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next ... ramen and the occasional pasta. (I'm actually really ashamed.)  For the ... that I have some experience with stirfrying a few things, I'm excited to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I'm ... music scene from world-famous Senegalese drummers. I'm failing at a way to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  probably my favorite season. I'm just not built for the beaches and heat ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... -ish snowstorm. Of course now school is in full swing and I'm running full-tilt to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  learned how to eat.” Hmm, it is a good book. But I’m still eating cupcakes ... . Janyce is a huge Patti Smith fan and I’m a big Robert Mapplethorpe fan. It ... . A Widowers Tale by Julia Glass I’m savoring this like I do with all

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in ... metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... might tell me I’m on the right track. Clish and other researchers have

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I’m ... this segment of Commonwealth. And I’m reminded again how nice Kenmore and ... managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... research papers with long-winded titles and, if I'm lucky, a sad little wiki ... , is unsoberingly motivational. ...I'm also reminded that I should go to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  conversation: ~*~ Mathura: omg omg omg me: whatwhatwhat Mathura: im sooo excited ... : :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room. i'm basically not sane right now. Mathura: lolllllllllllllllllllllllll

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  of German eloquence, however, I'm truly looking forward to my trip to Deutschland. I'm going with four other girls as part of a MISTI (MIT Science and ... tell how much bio and physics I managed to retain from freshman year; I'm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  the wildfire burning 13 miles south of me. I'm also looking forward to ... freely go and do my favorite outdoor activity! To be honest, I'm feeling really "MITsick" if you can believe it. (I'm sure the upperclassmen just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , I'm not graduating. Yes, I'm in the dorm for the summer. Yes, I'm in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , I’ve been taking my vitamins. And I’m on my third carton of orange ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... ’s right. Get excited. I’m back, and I’ve got orange juice.

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  . I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Furniture Capital of the World and ... since middle school, and now that I’m here I practically have to pinch myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I’m

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  Whew, I'm glad JKim posted an entry ten seconds after I did, because ... plenty of time to think about this and you can go during high school. But I'm ... my. Did I just quote Ricky Martin? You see, that's how far I'm willing

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  actually gave me something interesting to do, considering I'm an ex-con and ... . While I'm still talking about TV (God I've turned into a TV junkie ... in the BioInstrumentation lab, where I'm now the proud owner of a $45

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007