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• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It’s hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school when I wasn’t totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was pretty much it for…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  …well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)…It’s one of my favorite times of the year because everything is pretty much optional. MIT…

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  experience has expanded my outlook on life and the world. But first, I think ... subway station. Moral of the story: Life is different when you go to ... away and living on my own has really taught me a lot about life and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  full professors in social, behavioral or life sciences are women, “and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  best naps of my life. I actually haven’t completed my P.E. points yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO ... others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  to do in life, surround yourself with intelligent people and nice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons was released. The TFUEC has been working for two and a half…

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  I’m a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it’s my favorite class (and not only because my TA is…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were analytically rigorous. I tried to describe…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  really taken any official hip hop in my life. College is a great time to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  finally emphasized that in life there are no right answers, we must always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  No, I was not abducted by aliens. I was abducted by field hockey, which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and ... of state at an overnight field hockey tournament. Basically, my life

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  doing with my life. Over a hundred student groups were present at the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  unpacking the million little boxes into which I crammed my life last May ... -yet-unplanned life after graduation. Decide to make a meeting with my UROP professor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  Someone commented on the post regarding blogger applications asking that the selected blogger post their answer to the essay question. Seeing as I have no other use for this absolutely…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  . Despite a demanding academic schedule, he still finds time for a social life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  place with a completely different culture and way of life. I'll be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  interview process. "I answer questions about MIT campus life, financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006