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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  floorplans for MIT buildings, but I think it's only accessible on campus. I don't ... asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually ... install a window AC in any dorm -- and you don't have to pay for electricity

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn't ... something to prove. I couldn't shake the words of those who attributed my

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  reply. I don't know why you haven't gotten your postcard, but I'll look ... for why you admitted -- it's because you are awesome. Don't let any ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know ... turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... mafia. Now here's me blogging about some stuff that I didn't do but that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS ENTRY!! I didn't actually write this entry on ... my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... I was working on happened to be interesting enough that I shouldn't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  my trademark bunny hat. Don't worry, nobody dies in this entry ... usually don't shower on Thursdays, but I also usually don't go to work with four colors of paint in my hair. Anyway, it wasn't a problem because my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  . Ooops. Oh well. What's interesting is that my second entry didn't happen ... didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't ... admissions staff, but also with each other. They didn't just want to join the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  this would be the first pet that if it died overnight, my mom wouldn't be ... before I woke up and saw them. (Now the rest of this story I wasn't ... couldn't fight the tides, and he was soon gone. Ladies and Gentlemen, it

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  has scores that are fine, let's move on," but it didn't really make an ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high ... student host didn't ask me what my SAT scores were. At MIT, people care

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  ”. It can’t be that bad right? WRONG. My pride as an Asian with spice ... other. Unfortunately for us, our bodies don’t completely digest all the ... in a few hours. (I didn’t, the milk works) [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester ... haven't felt so apprehensive about. It's mostly because I have a lot more ... 's come with becoming a senior, I think. I haven't necessarily become

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  surprisingly common behavior for lots of people. I couldn’t, really, tell you why ... slightly unlucky. Something doesn’t work out, and I end up incongruously sad around the end of January. Unfortunately, this year hasn’t been any

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  . They were weird and cool and smart and funny. They weren't just ... and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures ... today. I don't think this is true of MIT: I am not a fundamentally

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  ="the two weren’t mutually exclusive but it appeared that more people over 25 ... MIT communities I’d seen so far, and how I could join one -- I wouldn’t ... several of my friends did, and decided whether they did or didn’t fit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think ... animation, I didn’t actually create a lot of art during first semester. I didn’t ... [annotation note="i was disappointed to discover MIT doesn't really do the whole

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  said that the ending of a story defines what it is about. And I haven't ... the original, like how light always scatters through glass. Since I don't ... Life of Adults, and I simply don't know it. But this version that I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  I'm pretty sure that MIT dining hall food isn't the reason why tens ... !"]regularly.[/annotation] Of course, sometimes you just don’t have the time or the energy to cook ... should be worth $12 or more. Who doesn't love a good bargain! Listings are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  just enjoy things as they come. I don’t want to [annotation note ... room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart ... ="boston's subway system"]T,[/annotation] but the walk over [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  blogs to see what fun stuff the bloggers are doing; maybe they don't want to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find ... 'em). I kept going back, but I didn't know if I was really getting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  MIT is overwhelming. Though this sounds painfully obvious, I don’t ... time I went home this fall. It was mid-October, and I don’t actually ... lets me remind myself that no, it isn’t my entire life, actually, even if

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021