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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  admissions process from the general masters program). Next, I emailed my friend ... advertising NBC's Olympic coverage? Yeah, he's totally friends with my boyfriend.) ... department pay for my dorm room.) This is actually the first year the biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  picture you mention- the girl painting is April, my roommate. The guy sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... single sex. For example, my suite is all girls, so we have a single

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  all my friends are Jewish. Then we decided to watch Hero instead. I don ... shame. You know what though? My friends are pretty cool, but they really ... could never miss an opportunity to allude to Clay Aiken on my blog. Hero

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  everybody has way more free time to spend on the Internet, so my internship ... person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice apartment with friends in [annotation note="one of the more bougie areas in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  grade, my friend had this grey t-shirt with the iconic MIT rectangle logo ... here/getting in? Natalie: Yes, one of my swim team friends went to MIT ... some of my friends that South Dakota is geographically North of North

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  is happier than ever, and I'm with my good friend, Dan S. '17, who just ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... 's been going on? I Moved Off-Campus Me - once the frosh obsessed with my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  of my friends brought a broomstick to the theater as his "costume" and ... A lot of 'lasts' happened this past week: - I turned in my last 5.310 (Chem Lab) lab report EVER. YAY. I was so happyy. - I went to my last orgo

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  was giving rumba lessons. My friend Yonas practiced some cell phone ... ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae without ending up with my food on my face. It's almost been a decade since

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  multipurpose 9x13 pan is a Pyrex pan which costs only $8.00? It's my last night ... photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can ... credit card fraud, and cashed in my winning lottery ticket. Despite having

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th ... ?) Today was my DOFMH from the lab... I've only taken three days off this ... every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  summer was great; I lived with my (and Mitra's) friend Rose '05 in Francis ... my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after ... internship program since my sophomore year of high school. I had always wanted

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year ... friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I ... people don't meet their best friends until their sophomore year. At the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... me make so many life-long friends. Being able to hang out with my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all ... had something new to give. My friends owned cars and had deeper voices ... ’d do if I dropped out of school now—the answer is to be with my friends

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... enjoyed the class and think it was well worth it for getting my feet wet ... realized that I would actually be quite bored there. My Japanese language

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  intended midpoint, and see my friend Kamoya approaching me, in a ... soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can feel my brain starting to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016