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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... classes I was interested in/ones that fulfilled requirements, I signed up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... I’ve been in a bit of a post-application-season pre

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  music, in any case. I get chills--no pun intended--in "Denn Alles Fleisch ... is actually more beautiful, if you can believe it. And Saturday I ... , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... the closest you can get to living in the Internet," and Ms. Chinea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  UROP in building 66, so I can drop off that package for you in 56." noun ... any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually ... naked in the Z Center. But yesterday I saw another professor naked in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  the pilot in 6-120, so I decided I could afford an hour long study break ... So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I ... : Barry To: Bryan "that's great that students are interested in it! we are

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ! Look what MIT can do." In all honesty though, it wasn't until I actually ... this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish them. So, someday in August, just remind me that I owe you two entries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... [/annotation]has kind of exploded into a thousand different directions. Usually, I can ... realities really could be me in a year. And as I continue this whole process

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  .009 makes me (and how I can't stop thinking about it). Sorry it's been so long ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle school (before getting too busy in high school), so I took the Advanced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... Lobdell also took some great pictures that night, but I can't share them ... too. So now I find myself on an airplane in the early morning heading

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I failed dance class. Good thing that ... . Somewhere in between kindergarten and senior year, I realized that dance was ... about this they'd send me packing. Now here I am in college in probably

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  't get done any time in the near future. It's been something I still can ... It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few ... tendency. when i'm with others, i try to exist in the moment, but when it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ... :30) WHERE: Johnson COST: $6 in advance, $7 at door WHY: To support the ... grown to become the largest residential facility for women in the city. We

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... being smart in the admissions process). I knew that some schools were

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much time we spend at home between work and exploring the city, but I can say ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be ... , I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite ... you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  possibilities when I know that only one can exist in this reality and I begin to ... here, I realized that I was wrong. That there are ways in which I can do ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023