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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  of humility here—a concentration on action rather than on titles. Here ... level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  shooting: But of course, being a hipster in denial, if there's two ways to ... time - adieu! (adieu is the hipster way of saying goodbye) ... fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... going to ask depended heavily on our vision of what the story was going to ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  video review. But what better way to come back than on beautiful water ... cooperate and we can get back on the water well in advance of spring break ... So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  and half of orientation, I lived on the floor 3C. My dorm room was shaped like a triangle. A triangle. What better way of proving that your ... met on Facebook over the summer, arrived at the end of the week, just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... 've concocted so far. 1 box of questionable purpose (If you're wondering, the ... marginally better than party balloons.) 1 night of fireworks, thunderstorms

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  going on. The idea of a shooting occurring on campus was impossible in my ... phone. Facebook blew up with updates on the status of the events. Police ... , and to have this piled on top of everything else that's going is enough

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid ... : Which escalated into: The people on the other side of the street on ... ID.) Honestly, it's probably not. But on the bright side, a new ID

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the ... aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  admissions officers are celebrating the end of application season. Also, this ... …but don’t quote me on that. For all the newly admitted students out ... incredible team of Educational Counselors and other great alumni to put

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  snow is about 1/5th that of water (which we conjectured based solely on a ... ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way ... Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be ... I have almost always wanted to work on. For those of you that have ... in the new ideas section of the binder. I think if I am being

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... feeling this way is probably also a consequence of quarantine, what is time ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  ://youtu.be/M-zuz_nZhGY Details: I filmed this with my phone, balanced precariously on the edges of ... Hey yall. It's been a while. On Sunday June 21st I texted Ceri that I was planning on dropping an effortpost "in the next week or so

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it's brand new and we love it! We've been in it for about three weeks. There

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... , exploring new territory, seeing new sights, and eventually having their skulls

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  posts that came out of my UROP research on the history of early ... be as good as MIT academics), but the love of food was greater. So ... Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024