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• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  and not applying - but two of my closest friends here came from a high ... I'm a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it's my favorite class (and not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school friends, and went last-minute shopping this afternoon with my little brother (who is suddenly not so little -- he can drive! weird). Soon my family

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  deadline for the Mexico program when I applied, as was my friend Marcus, whom ... really cool adventure. My research internship was part of our MISTI program ... the internships are fully funded. So as for my experience, I will start

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  said, my GPA is a 3.8. When I tell my friends, I think I'll just leave it ... other day I went out to eat with my friend Tetty. You remember Tetty, she ... My Mets are seriously kicking some you-know-what lately. I love it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  -Aid, walked to the mall, picked up a box of chewing gum, and went to my friend ... network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  . He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School ... packed and one of my friends reported that he never seems to take longer ... Introduction to Cosmology class My friend Eric G. '14 and I are teaching an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  one of my friends who is a student at MIT. Although he was willing allow ... one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... . Wellar wrote, "H [Harvard] admitted my D [daughter]. But, she'd like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... get my act together before the semester starts on Tuesday.  The last time I wrote a blog post was July 2020, when I had just defended my own

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  entirely derailing my finals schedule— I’m going to pull one tarot card to prompt my blog writing today: Tarot 101 Before we start interpreting, here’s my general understanding of how to approach tarot. I’m going to model

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Twitter. Since my blogs do a decent job of encompassing how 2022 went for ... about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... barely exercise, and also my time management is a mess, and maybe I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , from times I'd scrape my knee and then keep running, tearing the wound open day after day. Thick calluses over my right Achilles tendon, where my shoe chafed it bloody every race my senior year. This summer, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  , scarf, and winter hat. My friend Priscilla L. '20 went with me. We were ... 've got four piercings on my right ear, and two on my left[/caption] This ... in my dorm went and got piercings together. Their excitement and joy

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... ’s financial shakiness was magnified in my family by my parents’ youth and profession (blossoming scientists—specifically, underpaid grad students). My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston ... avoid going broke by spending all my money on comic books. The other was to brush up on my French in order to take a French class in the fall. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  't knock. You and your friends make your best guess, and call it a night ... him while he studies for graduate-level chem classes? Could I help my physics major friend while he psets for Quantum II? SURE! - if by "help

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... , it also helps that this particular lecture is being given after my ... also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  ) informing me that a reclusive-cousin-of-a-friend-of-a-friend used to be a ... think this may be my chance--I think I can do an above-average rendition ... for orchestra easily enough, although it's not on my copy of Queen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  frustration that some of my course 14 friends, especially those who are women ... hi internet! i took my last final this morning and am now done with ... about my semester. classes i only had one final this semester, and for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  tumble into the backseat of his car, where my friend and classmate Ava ... thoughts flash through my head. Exams and psets and friends and complaining ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  : At some point during deep COVID lockdown times, my friend and I rode ... Beatles, Pink Floyd, etc. etc. All this being said, my friend's parents last ... wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025