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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food ... , and all sorts of other fame and admiration. The current record is only ... headed out at 3 and laughed joyously at the thought of what was to come

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... back when I was applying, and it is the first time we've asked this ... what kinds of things they talk about. A week and a half to the early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  and none of the campers knew our real names. I chose my camp name ... showers, and pie eating competitions. All of the campers were not only ... couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  kinda hard; a lot of the slots were full), and then went. The training ... shape. After going back and forth with the bandsaw, I overshot with one of ... , cities of splendor without the box cover and missing a lot of pieces

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the ... , meaning I’ve finished the first two years of medical school (in the Harvard ... ), and three years of graduate school (in the Harvard Immunology program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

    Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and the second big number, The Naming of Cats, was super cool and spooky

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book ... , to bring to Paula J. '13's birthday/ANTM and Star vs. the Forces of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  myself and two of the grad students working in civic. we'd gotten together at the beginning of the summer to read and discuss interesting papers ... obligation to test and publish the potential outcomes of something you’re doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  , and settled into its new home. The first flight of stairs was no issue ... location. Said item is now free game and the first person to get to it gets ... foot tall, 8 foot long fish with teeth made of metal and plastic. The

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  most of the way and only actually hiked the last 1k or so feet of ... soon after, all before the first day of classes. Before the semester even ... psets due and a writing assignment within the span of a few days

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... pset in the first third of the semester, one paper presentation, a big ... years, and dozens of new players showed up. and all the effort of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  wrists wear out before the rest of my body does, and instead of waking to ... pinching the top of the udder with your thumb and forefinger, then curling your other fingers around and squeezing the milk out. "Lots of milk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  MITblogging. First of all, what's the catchiest song in the entire world? Wrong ... through the wreckage and finds a small backpack, out of which he pulls... a ... in front of a palm tree, and so on--each one to the rhythm of the music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... of the day. One late night Colin '10 and I walked into New House and ... , more food; and don't forget that last night the entire class of 2010 got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  the first time ever a few weeks ago in seattle, and i went to another ... libraries and jenkins and the concept of a workflow."][/annotation] ... summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... a line of security blocking off the backroom, and we officially ... the way that it is all very brick and has a lot of historical features

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome ... Break, and somehow it feels like the whirlwind that surrounded the mailing of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... kisses from across the pond. Ooh, and to serve as a source of distraction ... the world!) For my first trip, I tried to think of touristy things to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  just got mine from Costco at the beginning of my freshman year and I ... packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them ... speakers will do wonders. 15. Flip flops. The floor of the bathroom and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Chamber Music Society, and the Symphony Orchestra. First of all, I want to ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super ... and has $22.5 billion in sales. Basically, being the CTO of such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006