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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest ... confirmation e-mail with a link inside; click on that link to return to Change

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  a time?? -Alison"] All right, story time.[/annotation] I was hired to ... help find the [annotation note="Wow, imagine being a blogger, couldn’t be ... to be a blogger and coming up with this piece the day before the

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  -- it's so exciting to finally find a big group of people who get you. Not ... , 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  remember feeling like a failure when I switched from 18.01A to 18.01. I ... remember, every moment, being desperate to come back. I remember a post ... staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... -competition. Antonio wore a Garmin watch, which he used to record his heart rate for all ... to how we structured each rep. After each strenuous climb, we spent a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... . In three weeks, I will need to declare a (yet nonexistent) major. I must find summer employment, which I have decided to seek on campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  assured that you can't find it in Boston. We made a trip today to my ... . (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  the image of a White, Suburban Woman? What does one expect to find or ... read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... indulgence. I read How to Talk to Anyone (a wonderful, wonderful book) when I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  bloggers (this one needs to be explained later), and learned quite a bit ... his room and attended 6.006–Intro to Algorithms, a course located in the ... ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  'm trying to find a project and an advisor. Other than that, I'm still trying ... decided to clean up the toilet, which was also a photoshoot on its own, with ... wanted to expand the idea and manufacture a bunch of calendars to sell. Is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... was press a button to lock your car and you were good to go? Parking a ... like I am stealing, since I'm only unlocking a lock that is locked to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  to the place although I really didn’t have a spot to call my own on the ... also knew the every other floor rule for finding a restroom in an obscure ... when I was a student. I took my ice skates to my office recently, I know

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  here writing this entry. Summers are a great time to focus your energies ... . The summer before I applied to college, though, I did a residential ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  . Compare and experience against a storehouse of familiar experiences to find ... deadline to find a place to live, which is...pretty fast, but I really didn ... about it, he was going to do a slight analog of the quiz called the Keys 2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... love the first two weeks of class when I get to experience a new schedule

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... find time to watch popular weekly programs like Desperate Housewives ... DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  pizza store, I took a walk, expecting to find Absolutely Nothing and ... a hike to find a secluded place to pee, stung my leg on some nettle ... us decelerated. We all craned our necks to see why; a big black bear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering ... mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts ... , another is implementing a project in the Philippines, and yet another is in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010