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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done ... Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous ... ="83283" /] 4. Chalk art Although we can’t paint on the walls, we can use chalk to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  :30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... weekly PSet for my two courses. I try to get at least a problem done while ... fastest descent that can basically get from point A to point B in the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  (especially during CPW) but sometimes it gets ridiculous. When I'm late to class ... start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on ... the whole ordeal was the 25 hour odyssey it took to get from my hotel ... maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... technology to transmit knowledge across the world. While at the monastery, he

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  , seeing as my immediate reaction to getting sick was thinking that this was ... People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in an effort to get back into ... narrowed it (haha, get it, ultimately) to JMS's Amazing Spider-Man run or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  before I moved to Houston, Texas this summer to start my internship at TMK ... 'm meeting.  I'm from MIT, and I'm expected to perform and function like an MIT ... of my red hair. It's really strange being away from home and getting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... 'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  European loop). It would be useful and fun to see you and meet your ... really need to continue your quest for self-improvement?" When I am old ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  tasks and caught up on other things I've been meaning to get around to ... to get past my driver's exam tomorrow--fingers crossed on the parallel ... searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East Campus, has very different floor cultures, so I'm very happy to say that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... else to do. I felt so desperate to get the words out, yet so gut-wrenchingly terrified. I needed to get closer to the words so they’d get out of my damn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus ... freshmen get to explore the dorms, meet the upperclassmen and decide where ... (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning ... suggested that we apply. I didn't really know what supplies to apply for at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... , I've been settling in to my summer studio apartment, interning the 9

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before ... Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of my holidays too?       To kick off the spring

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  somewhere? And the 8 ivy leaves (haha, get it?) our beaver happens to be ... with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of course). Its been known to help MIT students snag internships, land jobs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011