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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But ... -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my magic wand and have all my stuff moved for me, I would.) My boyfriend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a 5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  As I started putting together the latest Questions Omnibus, I realized that there are many, many questions. I hope you'll understand if I ... ?" Prashant replied, "I think it means they have it (rather than they read it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  Before you ask where my blog title ("The McGann Factor") came from, I'll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I've grown ... nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn't have exams. I love making things, and I hate exams. 6.8371 - Digital and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... , I wanted to highlight a few pieces of general advice I had :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of the presenters for Pink Team, but I own two pink articles of clothing: a ... .009. So I asked my floor, B1, if anyone had a pink dress I could borrow. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  Living off campus this year means that I don't head home until my last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I ... I can across the Harvard Bridge. There's a speedometer halfway across

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... general vibe is very modern and clean and shiny. Beyond that, though... I'm not sure it has a vibe yet. Seeing how new the dorm is, I thought I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  Note: I know literally nothing about food. I love food, but have very few nuanced opinions about it.  I mentioned this briefly in a previous blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me around the country and world. This IAP, however, I had the most free time since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  hello! i'm creating a podcast. the tentative name for the podcast is [annotation note="honestly, i'm definitely going to change this name. please ... about MIT in general. most of the people i talk to will be people on my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  opinion on this is fairly obvious. I am extremely nervous about the outcome of this vote, but I’ll be okay because I have my fort! Yes, my fort is MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  I'm blogging from above approximately Michigan en route from Boston to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  notes I sketched out during the talk.   I'm very much interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just ... part of the Course 4 department that I'm planning to tackle on as well

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  Chris Peterson's powerful and beautiful Marathon post*, I question whether I am in fact "a resilient device," whether I will gracefully complete the rapid upward or forward jump through graduation. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  I’m writing this post after recently finishing a year-long stint at ... I could and observing web traffic data as soon as my articles are published, I noticed that I’ve quickly ditched all the ways I’d been

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... presentations), I currently have fancy Adobe software on my computer like Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I noticed something great about the MIT Admissions blogs as the days ... aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post. Pictures!  I need more pictures.  But of what?  I know, I'll show pictures of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A simple walk home across the bridge counting the Smoots as I go brings all ... but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012