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• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was ... ) or the suitcase record player that daniel bought at a [annotation note="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... began my job here at the office, and while I've learned a lot (a lot) over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have ... couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  shape myself into a better person. For now--one day at a time. Eat three ... lived in East Campus G212 for half a semester--just barely two months ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  work for my brother I guess. So this morning I decided it was about time ... is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a ... 've only read a handful of books for pleasure and all of those books were

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  through Rush at all, at least for more than a few flashy events. Those who ... (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing ... of which is apartment hunting. Bane.of.my.existence...for most of this ... with decided to go to different brokers. We looked at something like 10

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  bake you a cake at CPW* after she kills me for promising this without her ... attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times ... and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  't have to leave this place for long... Friday June 6, 2008 began in the ... lined up properly for the precession (first by school (e.g. Engineering ... breakfast but the line was ridiculous. At 7:45 am (most people hadn't arrived

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  addition, the Operator is responsible for "calling in" answers. When you ... pretty rarely, for the record—we're averaging less than one an hour). So I ... practically non-existent). I realized last year that I'm a lot better at trying

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at ... Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let's go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at ... , EVERYTHING IS A NUMBER. So we arrived at our first restaurant after not too ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  for providing their take on the Bono article? And now, your regularly ... knit sweaters--when I'm at MIT, I have been known to take bathroom breaks ... Melinda Gates doesn't seem to be so thrilled about it. Look at that scowl. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  plays Mirabelle, a shy 26 year-old sales clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue, who ... and lonely apartment. One night at the Laundromat, she meets Jeremy, a ... awkward scenes that leave you squirming in your seat. Awkward situations at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  interest at dinner parties, that is, unless MIT junior Emily Levesque happens ... gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known ... for Undergraduates, Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... than for some young researcher to be tagged "the new Einstein," so don ... ," said Dr. Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist at Case Western Reserve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... Sox party hopping started, beginning at the previously mentioned Jeff's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... survived my flight into Logan Airport, even though I didn't think I would at right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006