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• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when ... like it here. There's this quote in this book--possibly my favorite book ... 've been around the world, on the phone, at the beach, with a boy. in my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my ... the season (my first race ever!!!), but luckily I had two incredibly

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to ... from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... 'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic ... look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  My last post described how I finally made the definitive switch from ... slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... already entered my mind. And we all know from Inception, an idea is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly ... off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my comforter and reevaluate my dinner choices. (It's not as bad as it sounds

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  about cellular biology, but also a chance to improve my French and learn about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify ... MISTI 2.0 to make more progress on my project. I also discovered that I

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... but honestly gone to my graduate student and reported each of my ... would have gone if I had lied about any one of my errors. Honesty works

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  With less than two months left till my MCAT, I've started frequenting the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo/bio/chem till my brain feels like it's dying. And then I go to lab and do things

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... apartment three months after the move, so I wasn’t surprised when my dad ... . We walked into what would eventually become my new home, and there was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You ... : Last year, my brother's second-grade class had a unit on Flat Stanley (if ... with my Freshman Advisor, Phillip Sharp. "Wait, you mean THE Phillip

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... until about halfway through my freshman year because I couldn’t find cheap ones in my size (I have big feet...). When I finally did find them, they

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  balls, yoyos, bottle openers, sunglasses, cozies And my personal ... the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a carabiner on a nail, displayed on the ledge around my room, hidden in a desk

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... their behalf). One of my favorite places to run in Boston with the cross ... birds. That’s kind of a problem for my teammate Katy ‘11, who is deathly

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4 ... hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  Hey everyone! Some people have asked if I'm still blogging (mostly my ... major news on my end since the last time we caught up is that I got my EMT ... prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... asleep on my advisor's couch. For 2 hours. Coming back from his meeting, he

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. Today was my first ... figure bits. Using my trusty Dremel, super glue, X-Acto, pliers, and ... . The trip back was a little iffy. My main leg was fine, I made it to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just ... when I walked out of my dorm to head to Physics I noticed something strange. What are those pokey things on the small dome? I hastened my way

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008