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• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  to avoid putting the former director of the CIA on your thesis ... that, you're free to do whatever you like to your walls in Burton ... Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  PHONE! YOUR PHONE!" to alert me to the fact that I had dropped my phone on ... Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... , sat down next to a kindly elderly British woman with a posh accent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  to friend visits, making sourdough is my other weekend respite from ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in this time when no one's life looks like it used to or like they expected

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  and it makes coming to practice each day something I look forward to ... me make so many life-long friends. Being able to hang out with my ... proud of us for making it to Regionals.” Squash student-athlete: “During

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about ... months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... ’s hard sometimes to stay creative and productive in your artwork with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... To Get Around MIT Making illustrations for the next How To Get Around ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you ... at MIT has a cell phone, so bringing one of your own would definitely

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  happened and to walk exactly the way you’re used to, even if doing so makes ... at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... confusion of being 16 years old, bemoaning perceived injustices to me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your ... of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... , describing what they've left where, and people scurry to claim it and carry it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  sometimes the things that you are most scared of turn out to be your biggest ... friends to make. MIT is like a giant summer camp, filled with teenagers ... in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on--that you're

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... to the future.         Like many ... history is to realize that futures are products of their pasts. And one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers ... hears the cows' confession of being able to talk. Comedy sure doesn't make ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... ! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing ... , and you're going to come to CPW and already know the numbers, and I won

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  tour bus when you're trying to maintain a safe following distance of ... upon your table. You're not allowed to pour any tea for yourself unless ... , you can actually figure out what you're supposed to be eating. In this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  messages checking in. ("Don't forget to take your Vitamin D, Camille, it ... useless repetition. Senior year, I focused on making a change to put less ... just making myself pick it up again. I was originally supposed to join an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019