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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... : palm trees, iguanas, piña coladas. To me, they were nothing but pathetic ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  each wing has multiple lounges, where people come to hang out and study.  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a ... . we eliminated a [annotation note="Alan Z. ’23, Jonathan H. ’25 and I decided to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  my initial introduction to Italian hot chocolate, which should make the ... .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  brief, and it is the one MIT will continue to make, for as long as ... ban," which, among other things, suspended entry to the United States ... , including (but not limited to) those from the countries affected by the ban

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . "This is why we have to work to make sure our speeches are different," she ... school, so it's just wonderful that we're able to do this together and ... don't even think they're twins. They don't look alike to us. Their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... older couple from Bruges who are going to spend the next few months

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  request] Kudos to you and your eagle-eyed observation skills! Indeed, I was planning to draft an entry on November 7, but I had to call it off because I ... and best wishes! :) On November 7, I received an email. To be honest, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your ... "Buddy Holly" to Weezer. Yesterday I met three people who did not know who ... themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... caused it or who to thank, because God, I really do want to thank the ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... mayhem that is Registration Week was the perfect introduction to my Junior

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  reel across the country to help prospectives understand the place. But what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The ... , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical ... break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  $28 to make this a so much more dangerously awesome gift. ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  Just the other rainy spring day when I was making my way across campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... . Unfortunately, this semester also turned out to be rather less exciting for me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008