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• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... for MIT students. That also includes ambulance rides to and from MIT ... up to it to get a physical note, but it was all a fairly easy process

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  -of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that ... the soundtrack for the ending scenes. These songs have come to encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the Class of 2015. We're getting ready to welcome lots of their parents too ... logical choice to talk about what the weekend has in store for you if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  difficult for students to make plans). But even so, MIT is home to us, and I ... things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for ... don't mean to speak for every single student and I'm sure that, as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... doing. They were totally unprepared for New England winters and certainly ... to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... to a global pandemic, our dorm is being renovated for two years, and we ... for a community to be preserved? Ignoring the resoundingly obvious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70 ... class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium ... bucks.  That's not including the cost of getting trained to use that gear

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  sure to get our feedback for our weekly quizzes, too. I was really just ... California the day before his new job and swallowed a bee that proceeded to ... gotten stung by a bee. "I just didn't own a phone for a couple of years

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  get. I won’t have new grades by Feb. 15. What do I do?? Ya still gotta ... 250 word limit for a reason. You CANNOT use the FUN form to submit new ... pattern here?) Submit the form by the deadline, then send us your new grades

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... , convincing new students to join the crew team, leading FPOPs and orientation

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  ! Outside now, I wandered over to the site of the new Media Lab extension ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... canceled due to conditions that make a compelling case for not having classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  and help to pave the way for the pro-market, small government wave of ... be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with ... “protection agencies,” which are businesses that individuals subscribe to for a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ways to enjoy a New England spring and it does have its' charms, I ... weather; for me, it was either really cold from head to toe or very warm up ... tootsies with Uggs. 2.   Second way to enjoy a New England spring: Rainboots

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... Just this morning I was reading the New York Times on line and noticed an article about a commercial that Chuck Norris filmed for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  's relatively well known that, in addition to MIT's fervent love for STEM and ... desk we were here for the Nekomimi Cat Cafe event, to which they buzzed ... beautiful, but allows for movies to be projected onto the building next to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... get for myself and too often I'd find myself going to sleep as the sun ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020