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• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more ... different kinds of happy. The Namesake touches on this distinction; I think that it favors the latter sort of lifestyle because it is a coming-of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... snowmen in the moat of the chapel. We celebrated my birthday ... stretched out over a week earlier in the month. It was epic- some of the Bluth

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a meal plan YIPPEE unlike the majority of my friends. but also lowkey MIT ... . [/annotation] I’m happy to say that both my [annotation note="one of the new apps

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full ... , sailing, and, of course, UROP. Pat Antaki isn't the first MIT alum to go to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... forget it again in the fall haze of week after week of classes. I love MIT, but during most of the semester, it’s a fight to floss my teeth every

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal ... in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... realize that the only thing I ate that day was a cup of vanilla greek yogurt

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and ... front of the class I was like, "Uhhhhh, I don't have anything??" It was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are ... fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places--the ... into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... meditatively with my cup of tea and stare at the CITGO sign across in Boston

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  of Black Panther 2. Black Panther 2 had been on LSC's radar since the beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  else who did exactly this, and he had the time of his life.  I fully intend to have the time of my life too. But I need your help! What ... can convince me that that's the best use of my time I'll think

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs ... ordering an e-book reader (the brand of which I will not specify but you ... NO.1 MOST FAVORITEST THING ABOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It's an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  the city today, and I was proud of myself to discover that I actually have a pretty decent idea of where things are. The highlight of the night ... , that's right, we saw a modern, Spanish interpretation of the Oscar Wilde

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  tradition of preparing students to serve as officers in the military; since ... , of whom more than 150 have attained the rank of general or admiral ... (undergraduate research)... one great advantage of the ROTC program is you'll have

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... East Campus, home of the Emergency Pizza Button and the Motorized Couch ... was (I think) one of the 5th East freshmen who made fools out of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of these avid readers of the blogs, and I didn't hear much about MIT before

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... like you're living 5/3 of a day every day the week before Thanksgiving ... one of the turkeys; Bryan (our Graduate Resident Tutor, a biology Ph

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman ... sheets making door signs for the freshman  getting a LOT of cardboard ... reveal *everything* here. Instead, here is a hodge podge of photos from the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the ... last sentence. Yesterday, a bunch of us went over to the activities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005