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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  probably my favorite season. I'm just not built for the beaches and heat ... ; soft fluffy powder (you NE folks will just have to imagine what I mean) and vistas unrivalled. Yes, I was meant for the mountains. So imagine

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to Niketown, to ask the resident experts what kind of cleats I should get for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  : I photograph—both analog and digital—and I'm fascinated with light and optics. I teach photography classes at the Student Art Association, and I do my research in Camera Culture, a group at the Media Lab

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to write this entry, but I thought you guys deserved at least an update, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  By Celena Chan '12 So here I am, writing this, and it just hits me that it has been a week since I first arrived at MIT. I won't dwell on the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  face-to-face conversation, but via email. I get email from my dorm, from my fraternity, from my professors, from the student groups I'm involved ... . Earlier today I got an email from Ben Jones that linked to an online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e ... the pie, stay for the pi. Only at MIT Hillel. Unfortunately, I missed it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now, as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM ... silicon membrane, and BAMF! Cell phone power! My friend Jacqueline and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  admissions travels to the Midwest so much fun. I had really terrific meetings ... suburbs), Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. I so appreciate the warm welcome you gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of them are terrible, because I am really bad about flinching and shutting my eyes during camera flash, so I usually end up looking ridiculous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus, I'll share my thoughts on what's hot and what's not. So I'll make the

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , they're mailing regular decisions out tomorrow! I can feel you shivering ... whatnot. Let me tell you the story of when I got my admissions decision from MIT. It was Monday... March 17, I believe. I forgot it was coming

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  I have been incredibly busy so far this month. I'm taking hours away from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and ... -Fluids Engineering I - 1 Problem Set - 1 Exam involving problems dealing with

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is ... she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... , I embarked on the adventure of producing a documentary about the

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  . Unfortunately, I brought the bureaucracy on myself. Many good questions have been asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... gift!). But, I've been trying to keep people realistic through this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to ... high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024