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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  starts tomorrow. It is always wonderful to see so many parents on campus ... to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... to do that is on foot. Even just a short walk along the river can be a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  whether or not I want to do a varsity sport come fall (and yes, crew is one ... Orientation?" You know, to refresh my memory, I created a thread on College ... "You mean there's something other than Dorm Rush?" Or something to that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I ... build during this socially distant year. so, damn, I want to be better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and ... , which will make it harder to figure your shit out or build friendships ... preoccupied. I didn't go to a lot of parties with other freshmen or to dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... write about or nothing at all, is that you're being evaluated on you, as a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... closing in on me. Internally, my creation is often propelled by a feeling of ... varnishing an oil painting. One of my favorite thought experiments is to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  shout "On your left!" or "On your right!" and I will never be able to predict which it will be. So, I cling to whichever edge of the path I choose ... if she waves to every passerby, or just the ones she is curious about

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  22nd, they may come out on Christmas (at which point I'd have to lol ... I've decided that before I go to bed I should take advantage of the ... Confidential" to the search* *Gags at the cesspool that is CollegeConfidential while

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  Bohemian Rhapsody or one of the other two songs that I know how to play on ... Science this summer is kind of cool, but I can't wait to get back into saving the ... again, which is pretty exciting. And with $1500 of funding from the Martin

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and accomplish what needs to be done! Tomorrow, at 10:00 AM (ET), DARPA is

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  went on, all of Dilbert's complaints began to hit a little too close to ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  reason I'm sharing all of this with you is to hopefully inspire you to take ... split into two or three, but I didn't want to dominate the homepage ... ? Make sure to show up to our annual party at CPW on Friday The 13th

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  of inspiring science teachers, I also had one or two who wondered aloud ... 're male or female. Well, except maybe people who want to date you. They ... MIT join groups like the Society of Women Engineers or the Association

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  out phrases or clauses just to save on words, but I did it and felt like ... applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  goal is to assist students in improving the quality of life in low ... or complicated – in fact, the best solutions to problems of these scale often are and need to be simple. There is an enormous variety of projects

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  soaking up huge amounts of condiments, which happen to occupy about 30% of ... up huge amounts of condiments, which happen to occupy about 30% of my ... $600 on me this semester, which means that they love me more than most of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, a 1979 movie from Japan which is also ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston ... . Yeesh. That night, I tried to work on a paper but couldn't. I also didn

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  Introduction to Technical Communication Subject focuses on various forms of ... class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... a couple. My approach to selecting a HASS class is that I want to take

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005