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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... forehead into a butt. Jeremy '09 argued that Sidious was only pretending to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  .” I ran up to Tally, and a short while later, I was standing by a ... subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was. It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  over Killian Court, to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, an ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... ’m trying to figure out if I can be a grownup and still like comic books. Life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  makes a methodology “good” or “bad” or “well-written”. Or even how to read ... area. But the big “use” of this class to me was that I had to make a ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... , before that summer, I still had to make it through second semester with Toy ... broadcast on YouTube, and it didn't go unnoticed. We were contacted by a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  , surely MIT must not waver in its mission to make the world a better place ... Saudi Arabia, demonstrated by MIT hosting a Saudi-US innovation forum and ... members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually ... in what appeared to be a maze, I saw the dome, and I had a moment of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

   http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... , was hit by shrapnel that entered through his eye; as a result, he has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  me how to make dphie a home: I love you. I miss you all so much. I will ... . emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a ... did or said. I wanted so desperately to be liked. But by seeing the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ... our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... get students thinking at their seats. They responded by adding a few

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... wanted to make more time to draw, so I was really excited when Borderline ... paint a human face on a wall. Sketch I had to flip the drawing so it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  around 6 but stopped by desk to pick up a package from Amazon (canned ... you to have a wholesome Ash Wednesday David S. '21 is only eating the cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  , check. Ability to make R2D2 whirring noises and generate smoke by friction ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... underneath. I pay little attention to this because I am certain that a bone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... its purpose and they know what to do. A few rehearsals later, and it

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in ... , I get to "float" a bit more tomorrow. Looking forward to the EC bouncy ... . Marilee is speaking in this pic... ...followed by a performance from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by ... because I like having a bit more flexibility, but when we do make things in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  important to me than my studies. Is that enough to make an identity? A pile of ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• 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 ... -athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024