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• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  attend office hours for classes where the problem sets are notorious for ... different histories. I think for a lot of people there is going to be an adjustment period, but for me, I personally feel very welcome by this community

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  making a completely awesome aid sheet for 3.091... ...and then you go to ... then. Then. You look up at the board. And... Wait for it.... Wait for it.... "Yes! I got a 66!" Here's what I'm trying to get across

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours twice a week rather than for an hour three times a week. This term, I only ... with my head cut off for an hour, I went to 5.60 lecture, where we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  , given that there are 12 MITbloggers and assuming no leap years? Sorry for ... worth it just for the holograms and strobe photography exhibit. I also ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  even cooler name. 4. You might think Xena is a funny name for a planet ... ! 7. Ruth and I have painted for about 12 hours each over the past three ... vegetarian for a month was so I could write about it on my blog. So, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in ... for at dim sum, but if you make a request, sometimes they'll serve it at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... ). Favorite TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... for the rest of the day because the spoon is angry. Jason has two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... Birmingham for an evaluation of his delivery. Because ASMI is in conjunction ... apply to sports and people's movements playing sports. So for my senior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... in myself. If I didn’t let myself try my best for fear of failing. If I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... rankings and thoughts: 1) Baker: because I was hosted here for CPW and ... (debatable, if I'm being honest with myself). Things turned out fine for me. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  big plastic horn thing we have for some reason. Those who came to ... the rink were GRAs and friends cheering for whichever team they owed ... in this way for five nights, and then the final bracket was revealed to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  sitting across MIT's campus struggling to write for more than 30 minutes ... notes and posting them after, leaving three (3) different files for notes for every lecture, all with different amounts of material. On top of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... buy a succulent from a tiny flowershop bursting with greenery. As for ... for the Harvard bus, and I’ve ignored a man telling the entire bus about

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  !! Ever the perfectionist, I resolved to complete every route for the base ... 're going to discourage yourself from reaching for that next step. When you ... . Poetically enough, I did. Just for good measure, I climbed another. The next

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of ... some solid confidence for the start of the season. Gordon College: Home

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far ... down again. Couldn't go to sleep. I watched Hermitcraft videos for two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere ... 's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  't really identify. so here is a guide, for those lost. this emotion is ... disapproval from others. fear was developed for survival and may trigger strong ... processing. it can be thought of as many thoughts fighting each other for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023