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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  weekend I attended "CollegeFest 2009" at the Hynes Convention Center, just across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give ... 't attend as a college student, I was there for Livescribe, demoing and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business ... East Campus, proposed the project to Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  famous robotics classes at MIT. Last time I only had pictures of some ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool ... table, etc. For much of the two weeks, the lab looked a lot like this

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... with prospies and tell them how cool MIT is. I'd been on the tour for, oh ... to figure out what to do about that but for now I have broken metal

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my old top choice came. I wavered for a moment. I knew at either of the ... been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of ... convincing, further affirmation that MIT was really the right place for me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  , having not left campus for home at all, I triumphantly completed this thing ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... jerk. Miraculously, it didn't even bleed one drop for the rest of the day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my ... took us all to Jillian's for some fun and food. It's a pretty rare

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  On Tuesday night, I told the audience at my Central Meeting in ... hosted the meeting provided wireless Internet access, so at the conclusion ... just assumed the Red Sox were winning, for no particular reason)) and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  . Fortunately for her, I sleep with it at night so it stays in my room most of the ... for at least a few more blogs. You'll hear about my time at Bristol ... and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... report that I got exactly what I was looking for. Amongst adjacent ... under any other circumstance.    Do I regret it? No, not at all

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself A: for having all this hate toward myself A: for no reason at all A ... work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... mario kart A: like we're driving along in life A: at any moment we can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... at East Campus"]slightly dangerous ride[/annotation] and things are flying past at a breakneck speed. I’m trying to grab onto moments and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  ’ve got mixed emotions. You can see college peeking at you from around the ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit ... your dream schools. You’ve studied hard for the SAT. You’ve done all the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... “Colors”. There were many, many MIT students at the international terminal ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her ... in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  turning to rubble. So, even if it’s for a moment, look at the light, and ... ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  downright dreary, we feel right at home. In eleven days, we will be home. I ... 'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for breakfast, made an attempt at making my bed, and I might even go to the gym

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy heart of residential Cambridgeport, my home for the rest of the summer. My

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  deceptively suave, are nothing more than clumsy stunt doubles for the ... Orientation. (Where was I going? I have no idea, but I was lost.) I had been at MIT for a week. I was comparatively oblivious to the importance of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... typical pitch for a CPW event, thanks to the winning combination of gluttony

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009