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• 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
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on pizza and bourbon chicken from the mall, so day 2 doesn't count.) In my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for keeping a lab notebook), and even in my journal at age 9 I included a rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you ... lot of [annotation note="my list: all about love by bell hooks, crying ... , going into my junior year of college, i’m almost done. it took me long

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  -about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... yet. Because lately I've felt as if I'm running out of time. The way my ... that wraps me before I close my eyes. I am eating myself alive. I cut

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  ="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my existence—and living spaces. It's pretty litty. My group started moving in on ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... mode on my research project. i also expected to be really fucking lonely, because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... swept away by my next assignment before i even have the chance to reflect

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy ... wrong with this path; through my extracurricular involvement in high school, I learned a lot, both about my clubs' topics themselves (#Classics4

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  fourth midterm that I don't need the take the final. For my other Course 6 ... my write-up and cleaning up my code. At 20:55, I uploaded my work and ... my print statements. I quickly commented them out, re-uploaded my code

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ’d last been home. This past Thanksgiving break, as I turned into my ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that ... inordinate amount of time sitting at my desk. As a student studying computer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... -long excursion around the country. I carried with me, too, my New Year's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  reflecting on my past semester... On the one hand, perhaps that's because I ... of you out there will have to be content with hearing about my fun-filled winter break and fantastic first week of IAP. Over my winter break, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... that were clear around me were the oceans - and, for a moment, my mind

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011