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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  seeing all of my friends, I don't want you being able to see lots of pictures of me, I don't want you knowing where I live, what my phone number is, where I've worked, what my relationship status, and other little

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  these blogs. This is going to be my official "Mind Dump" entry. Whenever ... you a little insight into my current mental state, I'll dump it here ... 's athletics program due to budget constraints, one of them being my sport

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with ... with my physics requirements. =) Enough about finals, though! As I said ... to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... decided to tell you my ED story. Last year, around this same time, I was ... I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  when I say blogging has become one of the most important parts of my life ... feedback about my writing is an incredible thing. So I'm asking for just a ... you're curious about my application essay, that's fair game too

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved. When I came to MIT, I had no clue who I was going to meet and who my

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• 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 / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... . I wanted to appreciate the people who make my MIT experience what it ... my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I'm sad, or there's some conundrum in my life that I need to ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  ’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021