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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  've got my money on Germany. Good thing the weather conditions are better in ... bacteria this morning (for the MCATs, of course), and I noticed that the names for the shapes of bacteria -- cocci, bacilli, spirilla-- sound

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  collect Adam for the annual Plymouth North/Plymouth South football game ... friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the ... silly for him to fly all the way back there just to turn around and fly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... working at MIT are like playing Elden Ring. When I started working here 15 ... — '] playing Elden Ring on a dex/faith build: small, fast melee weapons with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  lakes in Rhode Island to begin with…!), played games, ate smores, and much ... looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... go out to the suburbs for that) and wandering on sidewalks for hours

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  campus for their 5th reunion and I would be here once again for my 30th. My ... and brought them to the point that made MIT the right college for them ... them to campus for CPW that April. I saw their nerves when they first

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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