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• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  3pm. We then watched the Michigan football game for a bit, and then ... played that for a while -- sooo addicting. But at least you're exercising ... Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner ... things that made the transition to college the hardest for me (I know. I am a GIANT BABY.). Lucky for me, I have a different sort of family with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  people want to play Tichu. The four of us play games for hours. By the time ... asks if I'm free to play some Among Us, and we play for a few hours ... Floor Pi Discord. We play Among Us for two hours or so. The lag wasn't too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  regular basis. I love music. I played various instruments for 13 years of ... couple of rooms down the hall from me playing this song on repeat for days ... first semester, and we played these two songs a lot during our games. They

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... these last two posts were just me typing furiously on a keyboard for a ... started blogging, I wondered for a while what my "writing style" was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing video games and walking around and being on voice calls and scrolling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “i’m not depressed!” haha

  

  i had an awesome long weekend, where i went sailing with a friend and ate dinner with other friends on friday, and i got to play my first assassins guild games in a while on saturday, and i got a lot of work done on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  burton-conner was set to be renovated. it was taken offline in summer 2020 ... like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across Boston, the Jimmy Fund has been sponsoring The Cow Parade which basically

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... as the Teaching Assistant (“TA,” in MIT-ese) for the 1:00-3:00 section

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  Catch reruns for 14 hours a day. You could easily become a Facebook addict and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... their time. Students here work hard and play hard. During the year, they

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  clueless. So thank heavens for Professor Lois, who decided one day while lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... . (Luckily, that's not a problem for most of us at MIT -- 80% of MIT undergrads

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  and i'm playing board games with friends and i'm in the z center ... scheduled, what do i do? lie in bed all day. snack too much. play video games ... from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  actually played with your feet), and preparation for the holiday season. I ... football game, and after we've digested a bit, we head outside for a family ... every couple of years for important family events) for a traditional

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... fascists!" Not surprisingly, he urged everyone to pick up fliers for an anti

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  chainsaw.  But, for the month of June, we worked together to code the game ... around for summer UROPs.  I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... shirt. Did they know who he was? Did they understand the principles for ... devastated Southeast Asia in December 2004. It was there, while engaging in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  their time at MIT. For students who want to stay active but who don ... ! Students interested in playing varsity sports should contact the coach of
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  People sometimes say that it doesn't matter where you go for undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have ... undergrad, and your undergrad school will change you, whether for better or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  awoke every summer day at about Price is Right (10:00am for normal folks ... kitchen to make some food before hopping on the computer for what little ... levels in WoW, FlyFF, Maplestory, or whatever other free to play MMORPG I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013