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• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome, but I'll leave you with a few thoughts of my migration southward. 1. Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  my Ohio/California suitcases to Maine. (Yes, I took 2 suitcases home. My excuse is that I had to haul the Christmas presents I bought for my ... , trust me, it was raining harder than it looked). My brother still had a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds ... absolutely no common sense about what classes to pick (and apparently due to my phenomenal cosmic bad luck!), my midterm weeks tend toward the crazy. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  of each and my first impression. 10.213: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics -- Last year, my UROP advisor, Jefferson W. Tester, taught this for ... hard." 10.28: Biological Engineering Lab -- This satisfies part of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester, because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

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

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But ... -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my magic wand and have all my stuff moved for me, I would.) My boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  Pig...no joke :^) So as of yet, you have not been introduced to my best ... visit him for his 20th birthday. Before I made it there, I experienced my ... out to the dead zone when it came to cell phone signal. When my cell

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan ... Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can ... major or minor with Biology, which is course 7. My freshman year, I lived

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  I'm sitting on my couch with my friend Jeff (who, after graduating ... evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... Red Sox (definitely not true). I didn't realize my error until I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  ='With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... moments free from anxiety about posting slices of my life to the public

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  has abruptly given way to winter. It’s the cold air stinging my airway, how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... ) instead of my usual four or five. My other academic commitments are to work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  for help when necessary. I’ve also learned a lot about my past, that my ... homework and thinking “what am I doing with my life?” It sounds ironic ... doodling on sticky notes when class got too confusing, pelting my friends

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and ... went to the end of a T line was when some of my podmates and I went out ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  sandy mountain ledge, a lesbian with hot dogs for fingers.  My younger ... come along, so I directed all my worry at her, peppering her with questions that thinly concealed my stress. “Do you think he was able to find

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my internship. I finished my internship with Microsoft this past summer and got a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my ... dances became my favorite hobby, and eventually, I started filming videos

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded schedule, pretty much every upperclassman I know (as well as my advisor) told ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20. This year, my class sizes are roughly 5, 6, 8, 6, and 25. I'm learning ... for my Science Writing class, taking field trips to MIT's Wallace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013