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• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  kept me from sleeping with my windows open at night, this I did mind. Two ... my window. Said it was coming down anyhow and didn't want anyone to get ... . 24 hours pass. One day after my noise complaint. I wake up to a small

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could see my comrades and I could sense that their resolve matched my own. A shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Somewhat Random A little news bite.

  

  JK Rowling announces Harry Potter Book 7 Title Not completely unrelated to MIT...well yea, but since finals are over and my brain is still ... several other appearances in my time at MIT: I was pretty excited when Book

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  D-Lab Food Fest A week on $2 a day, followed by a meal from around the world

  

  -Lab Food Fest, and my week of living on $2 a day that preceeded it. ... And for my mother, who jokingly calls me "our family's wannabe Florence

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country, and will be spending Independent Activities Period (IAP) in Zambia! We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol ... completely missed this season and now I can't believe my eyes! How is Taylor, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I ... wrote for my HASS on Tuesday. Today is an awesome day. Hopefully I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to look into this; I have no idea why it's happening. Selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  was a great 36 hours of hunting! I'll post some fun puzzles in my next ... captained by my friend Dan '03. Way to go! Dan '03 of The Evil Midnight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  farewell to my fifth semester at MIT. It's kinda creepy how time seems to be ... sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus to head here to watch this movie in IMAX. I'm a "little" excited ... waited for the bus, but it was kind of cold so we did the group huddle. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... 's a salute to my top five favorite MIT all-nighters over the past two years. 1. The night before my final paper was due for 21L.009. This was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my ... soon as I find my camera cable) So Thursday night, we went to Betty ... . I received an email in my inbox that read: yesterday was someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the accordion, my uncle plays the clarinet, my first cousin plays the piano (he

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  person on Earth that I would have my first weblog entry up this week ... Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order ... last year from my dorm in the west side of campus to my classes in the ... note="my bed was cozier"]lectures and recitations[/annotation], but i did

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do ... my MEng next semester, and I do not want to be taking 102 units, and I ... vaguely want to shake my fist at the sky and ask what I did wrong to deserve

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022