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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  ASA volunteers, fellow MIT students), and I'm reminded of home, in home ... , and much harder to live. ** Kamoya and I and two others walk home, of ... 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle ... Place Market and tried dozens of weird things like buffalo jerky

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home. Almost all of my grades are in and I'm also happy to report that I did much ... on their home towns/cities/nations. (Diana and are the resident "New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  enjoy the last moments of sunshine. My head resting on my backpack and my ... began.  VI. On tropical storms and hurricanes: Having spent the bulk of ... warmth—the lake washing over me, and the tingling of the Sun on my cheeks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... ' article about the admissions process and the pressures put on students. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  students to explore MIT dorms and find their future home on campus. REX ... Jerry on the subway to the aquarium trip. I kind of got adopted in and am ... personally did not have a great time during REX, and was on the verge of not

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  greet. I met with Jane in her studio and immediately signed on for the ... ).  We invited all of these professors to tea and connected the institute ... Netherlands. My first day of travel involved taking a plane and traveling to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  make theirs from melon soda and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. [gallery ... ? Probably not if you’re an American reader, but ask any South African, and ... -coloured cream soda on hand. Luckily, one of my friends has Pakistani parents who

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  's Mom's and my favorite movie of the last decade, Galaxy Quest was on the ... morning, leapt out of bed, turned off my alarm, and then awoke again. This ... at 10 AM on Saturday morning. Unlike my usual Tuesday and Thursday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially ... and letting said cat jump on a piano, which actually turned into an apt demonstration of some modern music. On Saturday the marching band headed over to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students. Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to ... places, at Engadget, CNET, and BostInnovation. Check it out: Burton

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  might have spent decades of their lives working on -- and Carl was getting ... blogosphere. We give first-hand stories and accounts of forays on this landscape ... colleagues got up on stage and began dragging him off of it. As he was leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved ... 's "Heartless." It sort of made me wish I could sing =P If any of you prefrosh ... be a lot of fun, and I was finally able to see the faces behind some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach ... -perforated silence of Cape Cod two full months before the season of tourists and ... . Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  work with pset groups and readily ask any and all of my friends for ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  the second token out of my pocket and set it most intently on my desk ... lost under the canopy of Allison's bed and checking out food options at ... continuing obsession with Food Network by recounting some of the best and worst

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I reflect on the transition back to MIT from a place where I have lived and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better ... decided that it was time to conquer her fear of bikes, mountains, and New Hampshire on our dorm's camping trip. Having the option of a day hiking up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  sometime around 3 am, sharing food on the sofa of our freshman year suite and ... ."    And thus, The Double was born. The inception of this idea sent us ... of me that I'd thought I'd outgrown or discarded— I'd close my eyes and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  path of UROPing on campus this summer. I lived at home (about 35 minutes on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018