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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the ... personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... and Puru have this crazy fight where Puru jumped on top of him and they

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  at MIT – since arriving here, most of it the hard way. I know that ... the Media Lab on the east side of campus. It's also only about a hundred ... of recovery and apparent good health, the peritonsular abscess

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  bridge on my way home. Well, I ran into her on Monday night and mentioned ... find new cool places on campus, even after hanging around here for a very ... reunion on campus a couple of years ago. And since one of my favorite places

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  -love way of saying, "You've only been there a week; you'll get used to it ... dorm East Campus and, more generally, the dorms on the east side of MIT ... 1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  conspiracy of nerds who write about MIT on the Internet and learn the secret ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  explore EC. at the end of it, four new Bombers were placed on my floor, and ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... friend. both of us had way more belongings than anticipated, so our move

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... world’s perception of what I know as a good town.     What is ... just as many new buildings, made of the same red brick. Mountains

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  it on my shiny new Spotify account and listening to Favourite Colour in ... on stage. Except we were on the floor, and this group of really tall ... Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and ... (basically every academic building on campus) and found a fair number of dead ... already now is definitely the time to get a new one on Amazon.com if your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  once. On the day of the final, I made plans with my friend Martin to meet him and his family to watch the game. On my way to meet them, I passed ... on the metro, but didn't take it all the way home. That would be silly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... probably relieves a good fraction of the stress accumulated from the more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  . Looking back on my two and a half years here, I am most proud of my ... /see pictures and not hear me ramble on, follow this link) I peaced out of MIT ... , train them on the use of the technology, and collect data on each and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  semester. What a good way to meet yourself, taking twenty minutes to watch ... SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... bearing good tidings in the form of a little glass bottle. My world turned ... . I needed to shout this on the mountaintops, voice hoarse but full of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  soon as I went on a dorm tour during CPW. It helped me get a sense of all ... "]stickers,[/annotation]tote bags, and snacks. This year, I'm on the other side of Midway and helping ... members of a certain community in a casual, fun way! Nearly every sorority

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  on the ice just because I don't have the luxury of training all that I ... enough on its own. More of often than not, both my mind and body are equally drained, on the verge of burnout. It's lonely to do this all on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... working on; I tried to say that stress was taking the best of me, but even ... the greatest kids showing up at the freshman orientation of his new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... ;             We then parted ways

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi ... this class are graduate students, some of them working on their Ph.D, and ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so ... doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005