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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get ... the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  meaning to do this for months. since march, really. and you've probably ... the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  posters to advertise for the event Deep Talks with Shallow People. The event ... ="Support Communities For First-Years"]SCUFFY,[/annotation] [annotation note ... emotionally taxing. From August 23rd to the 30th, dorms hosted events to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  cookies for her professors, which to me seems like baking a batch of tenure ... from OpenOffice long enough to wander up two flights of stairs and straight into a delirious, dripping dream. Having recovered enough by now to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------------------------- Campus Preview Weekend Registration Deadline The deadline to register for ... requesting to join - it's how Emma and Michael (the admins for the facebook ... your peers than you will from your classes - and for that to happen, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  -- not for Jack Bauer, but to represent the fact that MIT majors go from 1 ... the religious symbol and the double helix is meant to show the need for ... and point out locations to lost prefrosh when they stop me and ask for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass ... to any other colleges, probably because I hadn't applied to any other

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  for Premiere. Finally, at 7:05pm, lights dimmed to outrageous cheer ... , it was time for me and Ann L. ‘26, two of the artists on RingComm, to ... ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  engineering, grading the final for 6.036 introduction to machine learning, and ... 'd be waiting for a download to finish or for a program to build. our ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  little revision to remove. For example, take this original introduction to ... involved something about Obi-Wan searching for a "Kiber crystal" to amplify ... must find a way to get to Ogana Major on your own. He is waiting for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  least consider doing so. Realize that you don't have to settle for "okay ... have to live in a dorm for a year, you might as well find one that you ... assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace ... ’t seem to reach past, just as there was that ceiling for older generations of women who were confined to domestic life. But (for once) I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ’s high school days. “Do you remember when I would take you guys to UCLA for ... there every month for two years, always trying to convince me of the ... to my room is one I recognize every stroke of. Now after I’m away for a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  for the meeting, however, so we stopped by the side of the road to look ... Marvin and Darryl off for two hours while the rest of us went to a ... jump into bed. Tomorrow, we'll return to DINEPA for the WASH cluster

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  they all thought I was going to a meeting for students who were admitted ... want. Feel free to show up only for the actual weekend days. I'm not sure ... answers. For one, it's just an MIT student's nature to complain. No matter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes ... ’s not much for me to say about these things; not enough, at least.   i ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  . Shoutout to my friends (two from MIT!) for coming to watch and cheering me on ... home for the competition, I had some time (read: a few hours) to spend ... (GTL) program in Germany. For three weeks, I was assigned to teach 10th

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  should really study for 18.701 now! But before I go, I just wanted to say, sorry for the more technical, less “look-what-awesome-thing-happened-to ... up until 3am almost every night for the past week, studying for tests

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  over to King Orchards. All the blueberries were picked for the season, and we didn't want to pick prickly raspberries, so we went for the ... Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008