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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  classes (60 credits) registered for the Fall. Adding 4.601 would put me at ... that haven't been living in the West or reads English) who would say that ... when I was eating Chinese food a couple of days ago and I opened my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is ... to be great, or perfect, as much as i want to help make promys an ... complexity, i thought, comparable to this. just1, for example, was my first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  . (Sidenote: this will probably become a yearly thing.) Sidequest 1: Learn the ... I intend to do GTL somewhere in Europe next IAP. Sidequest 7: Beat ... lot of people (50%, more or less) at MIT also have a hard time with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  climb over a fence, but even so, it was all done the day we learned we ... occupants that was below 7, bedrooms too small to turn into doubles, a weird ... ourselves two days to locate and contact a good 5-bed, and although the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  becoming something huge--or maybe even just something small and super awesome ... , is not everything. It is only 50% of my life here (ok, sometimes 60% or 70%. Or 90%.) In the beginning of this year, I suffered from a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  busy studying (or panicking about studying) to worry about things like eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... felt before because it's not your day to day "normal" anymore. Seniors

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  weeks: the end of our first 8-week ICE course. ICE, or Integrated ... the first day of class. Eight weeks later, my group (Lucy ’12, Emily ’12 ... common solvent, which those of you who have worked in labs or even used

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  . From: Jordyn To: [email protected] Date: 10/5/2006 1:24 PM Subject ... that to MIT Hillel! I think that one time there was some form or ... that isn't Kim or Rizos or Lzhpb*n!xobile is code for "JEWISH!" in Hillel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day without class or UROP responsibilities by seeing the new MFA exhibit ... impressionism and symbolism to mid-century modernism." The twenty or so pieces by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  ungodly long paper about the symbolism of the whale or some such thing ... scientist. Questions: 1. thekeri asked if the novelty of snow ever wears off. The novelty of the first big snow (or the first few big snows) of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  Mount Moosilauke or a day biking down grassy ski slopes, Ruth courageously ... at Dollar-A-Pound costs $1.50 per pound, or 75 cents per pound on ... . Stuff blows up! Things fall apart! Chapter 1: No Fear, Cavalier, Renegade

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  . This is not an accusation or an excuse for myself, but merely a curious ... directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit ... be considered at all. Whether or not MIT (or anyone, for that matter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day ... ). The third day in a four-day weekend, it also marks what has been a ... , hosts a Marathon Day party every year at their house, which is located

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  after the A or B in the course; instead, I went for understanding the ... the ability to create our own heaven or hell. It really depends on the individual. Try discussing probability with people outside of MIT or quantum

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  ;ve been working for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, usually from 9am-5pm ... this dichotomy in which you have the power to either save the world or ... presentations or software that will be presented to clients." Stanislav Nikolov

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  time I was stuck in an airport overnight? The next day, I and 1,203 other ... other day. This occurred outside the end of the Infinite across from Building 18. There was no snow or rain to justify my fall. As far as I can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  , lived in lab night and day. I’ve fallen deeply into projects before, but ... ="attachment_96145" align="aligncenter" width="300"] b1!111!!!!!11!11![/caption] I love b1, my dorm community. Bonergiving was the cutest event, and I felt

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the ... or negatively), not something that needs to be worked out in real time ... -mail at MIT lit up that day and it was hard to walk outside without hearing

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  been here for only 38 days, I can confidently rank Boston higher on my ... , and loved it! So in an effort to encourage you to go around Boston (or ... Dali exhibit right now until December 1, and even though I only got a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024