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• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... -wearying fatigue that still permeates my body and makes my eyes feel heavy is any ... who were much better conversationalists than my textbooks and psets. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  up my face in a ridiculous manner? (That last one has worked a couple ... I was getting ready to attend my own Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). I ... people right away, but my complete inability to remember names and faces

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped ... . Patiently waiting to be interrogated and yelled at for misplacing all my papers. My first few weeks at Cambridge flew by. Participating in meets

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more ... : After my last final on December 20, I flew home to London for winter break ... presented my research as a poster, was judged by various graduate school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  account of my entire summer, but I have to stop to thank the people around ... while we search for a more permanent place, brushed my teeth, and did my ... hundred emails, checked my itinerary for the trip back to Cambridge, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my backpack several times before finally realizing that my hand was now covered in ink, and that my ID was ruined...(or splattered-decorated with ink

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  don’t remember much what happened during my Pi day; I think I went for ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying ... for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... , like eschewing traditional coloring books, when my children were younger ... spontaneously reaching for the flip video camera when my son refused to eat his

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  between sleeping and eating - writing this will hopefully break my cycle of laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound of roosters and step outside my door to see peacocks, cows, and stray

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you think?? lol As usual, my thoughts come out as bullet points so in the following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads ... arrows and dots all over my notes. Honestly, orgo, while time-consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm ... my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic ... walked into her office with eight classes slapped onto my registration form ... about classes with my advisor for 10 minutes, and walked out with seven

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  By Gordon Wintrob '12 Well my camera conveniently died during CPW ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... -based article short but sweet. Enough with the excuses, onto the introduction! My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  Ok, I'm breaking my "Only blog every other day" rule, but only ... hundred shirts are sitting in my room), and I've begun to realize that my ... Thursday this year, completely avoiding CPW. My next math test isn't until

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  school. Yeah, it's sad.) I'm not sure if my situation is representative of ... to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... certainly is my hometown. I was born here, I spent eighteen amazing years here

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to beef up my math background. Prof. Kleitman is a zany, charismatic mad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  I finished my last final exam yesterday, and barring any unforeseen ... webcast here. You should watch it and cheer for me.) My parents and younger ... to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  fans), my dad, grandpa, and great-grandpa were White Sox fans. Not surprisingly, then, my brother and I became White Sox fans too. Of course, I ... chance to go to games one and two in Chicago this past weekend with my

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  My grandfather was from Milledgeville, Georgia. He was a simple man ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... -known problems associated with the USNWR rankings; my fellow blogger and colleague

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005