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• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  -shaped, unsuspecting brick building on the side of Mass Ave next to a shady gas station. I miss coming back to an actual home. I miss plopping down on the ... on the other side. I sit in the cold, unfeeling halls of New Vassar

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your ... time exploring other college campuses (though, you're not allowed to have ... about where to spend the next four years of your life. But there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... some pictures. Flying into the Dominican Republic: Getting closer to ... Dominican Republic. It was our third visit (click here to see last year

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... compared to what was really on my mind all day. It's hard to describe in ... Today has been a hectic day, to say the least. It's only around 9pm

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  decided to skip 18.022 lecture on a whim to go to CVS with my friend to pick ... from difficult to manageable: 8.01 Physics I I spent two hours on the ... Professor Grossman is really entertaining, and on Fridays we get goodie bags

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  movements to get a tiny Cessna to move. These controls… were amazingly ... (you just pulled up and continued to fly), but I did get to see targets ... disclaimer lately on this blogs - and should really always be assumed to be

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... , we travelled to New York to the Metropolitan Opera, to go see Wagner ... interested after the first hour, once I figured out how to turn on the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... , or between now and whatever you're waiting for. Things to Make While

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  rising star in economics since her doctoral dissertation- on a new way to analyze how people respond to rising uncertainty- creating a stir on the ... through with our plans to take a trip to the White Mountains in New

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at ... libraries in New England. Needless to say, this makes me really happy. ^_^ I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  all your responses to the lynn/lonn/line poll. My high school math ... "), "tan". Then you get to the hyperbolics and it's "sinch," "cosh" and ... , yeah? I'm Lynn. What's your name?" Sam: "Oh, nice to meet you. My name

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  would give a shoutout to every single one who lives on 2E right now, but I ... get into my bed by climbing on the small bench-looking thing in front of ... get into bed, to be honest. The springed bedframe has lots of possible

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  that I had to get off the bike and sit on the ground. My legs hurt, my ... , then said "let's get back on the bikes." So, we got back on the bikes ... 's skull was going to get smashed in by a cow hoof) but two of the teams were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an ... that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your ... mandrill" with a long cylindrical prong to get a perfect circle. Once that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  loves her some frappuccino, so we decided to get right back on the T and ... So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... , what could go wrong if we headed down to the Common to see it? On the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to ... finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's get degrees and move on. However, I was planning to use this class to ... your stomach clenches tighter and tighter, and you just want to scream ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... to work on my own than has ever [annotation note="I make efforts to not ... with cool fashion between sets. I love meeting new people. Getting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  started this year thinking we'd get to spend more time together before we ... . as soon as i graduate from mit, all my mit friends get put on a counter ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  kind of a throwback to AP Physics C: Mechanics, with a little new ... will be all new material! In general, it is exciting to take 8.03 as well ... going to be a lot of new material. Everyone of my subjects, other than

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018