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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... mug is also from him, and is sitting on top of what will hopefully soon ... . I got jealous of Max’s cube and bought the same one. I solved it on my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  -gritty details and hundreds of cool pictures, check out my hiking blog. I’m going ... MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the ... Yesterday's tie was red, and my subcommittee was McGregor (also MIT '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT ... homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT, though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  shorts, and existing solely on Wintergreen Lifesavers because your freshman ... matter. And while my sense of humor has certainly gained from being one of ... limit has never made me leap out of my chair and dance for joy of Java

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  little shirt that says MIT 2024 and looks significantly cuter than any of ... ride. A ride on a street with a lot of potholes. Though I told myself I ... decisions that have happened spanning the end of my sophomore year and this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was ... the power of hundreds of strangers potentially reading this and placing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I ... triangular furballs, and watching them waddle around made me happy. On Sunday

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  expensive, so I haven’t liked any of them so far. Enjoy a free steak and ... this semester and slept on an ESG beanbag instead of my bed in my dorm ... first and part of my second summers working on campus. My first summer I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to ... eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  of news and found the New York Times. I was enamored by their graphics ... of luck, I got an offer to join their team for the summer and am ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  struggling under the sudden influx of CPW-related e-mails, and my willpower to ... you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... fact that my battery ran out of power and I didn't have my charger

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and ... not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from

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

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  different community events and (of course) occasionally when working on psets ... from home who were so excited, and want to help in any way they can ... ’ Association and the President of Sakata Afrique, an African dance team at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public ... the dome decoration is here.) It must have taken a lot of work and it ... are safely stowed on the basement shelves, and I am hoping desperately

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... eclectic assortment of MIT undergrad, two cats, and a brood of hens. Every ... -wrapped dolmas, golden puffs of fried and honey-soaked dough, and a hundred

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice ... statement, and the sharp crack of ice breaking in the horse trough signals the ... to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me (or post it on the MIT 2012 Facebook group). Please include names of ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  And the winners are… 2010 Blogger results!

  

  , and I'm still disappointed that we couldn't find a place for more of the talented people who applied. If Blogger selection was any indication of what ... the thought emotionally and physically exhausts me. We didn't have any

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  day--I was usually home by 3:15 on Mondays, having finished up most of ... and Sam's Mom told me that it was coming the week of the 22nd. I think ... like, two-thirds of the way up the block, and I was pretty dumb in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006