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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence ... time...no pressure" text from my dad. See, I had all these awesome blog ... : (This is also proof that my handwriting isn’t always neat. These are also

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  . My eyelids currently feel ridiculously heavy - and yet, I don't regret ... : My friends and I were among the first to arrive at Milan; not being ... wrote one of my MIT essays - the "Tell us about something you've created

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  , Shakespeare’s Pizza, and the Kewpies (naked baby dolls that were my high school ... school, hit deer, etc. I couldn't fall asleep my first night at MIT because of the sirens and seeing the Boston skyline out of my window was a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga defacing my MIT ID with a permanent marker. Be warned: the ... someone had stolen my pillow and replaced it with a laptop. Except the ... I had already paid for my laptop and filled it with useless PDFs about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to ... in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately

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

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always ... forget to blog that last one? My bad, guys), but I don't think this time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name ... this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only HASS-D and writing course, required for both graduation and my writing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  quite a bit of experience with Medical due to my training as a Medlink; so if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them. *** Student '11: Over the past year, I've had more than my fair share of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The ... room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either ... ?" my mom asked me. "Yes," I said. I clicked the button. Have you ever

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

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  , because I'm moving back into my dorm. And most importantly, friends that I ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an ... Conner 2. And yeah...there's my intro. Back to the other interesting stuff

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  , and I diligently take pages of notes each class to supplement my reading comprehension. All good, right? Not last Tuesday, when I left my copy of Ulysses, along with my awesome notebook of class notes from Dubliners, Portrait

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  buying a computer for college, I can share my thoughts. This blog entry ... - no breakfast from mom in the morning - managing my own money - no ... from suburbia to an urban city - doing my own laundry - no car Now while

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... clash of my exam and i couln't give it. in december i have my exam again for SAT. so i couldn't complete my test on time that had set up by the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  night before. My clothes were laid out for me, my lunch would be packed, my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting ... The Jay with Alaina. Thanks guys! So I thought maybe I could display my ... in playing, which was my senior year in high school when the entire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of too much consequence in my graduate school application, since I already ... plants! I hate you! EDIT: I sent my personal statement to the professor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  in my hands, seeing beautiful lines flow from my pencil, is so insanely addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... origami, and constantly sketching in all my classes. Still, when it came

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  especially the first 4 or so) as wishing my Great Hunger would disappear, since ... from blogger alumni. So I decided to use one of my tactics against writer’s block: pilfering through my “graveyard”, discarded posts or snippets that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025