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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a ... find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  ?" and "Tell us something funny, we read a lot of these!" It seemed to go ... located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start ... we've learned to read throughout the year. We know that someone's had a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... a happy combination.) When I got to the terminal at 12:13 the bus had ... ). Then we went to a man-made dam and rented a self-propelled boat for the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle. Over Kresge. I hope you got to see this, it's a pretty incredible sight ... from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  a series of classes that a student can choose to take that helps build ... activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied ... would our hopes and dreams be dashed by a failure to launch? Before we

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  were at ISEF to a little reception. While some people had to stay with ... a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  under a rock in a barren desert devoid of Internet connection). I went to ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... low-key. ...I basically just went home for six weeks. But I had a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  -control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... water to a 100-meter altitude and then dump it out of the airplane like an ... the weather to be over 50 degrees. It's a simmering 70 degrees here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food ... is a bunch of photos because it’s so hard to choose between all of this ... though that is not what Dom is short for. i like to call him a dirty little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... bad when a friend wants to say "hello" or if a heavy object is about to ... Smoots as a measure of distance? See? It's actually really easy to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  wanted to just sample a new song or album before you paid anything for it ... me thinking that it might be nice to create a collaborative playlist ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to ... feel like I used to be happy -- and then Covid neatly excised a year and ... . I once said that to a [annotation note="my urop lab is aggressively

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... EPIC, but was also a sweet finish to a hectic junior year where I took ... at night, because one of my secret dreams is to work as a multilingual

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  : spelled with a “z” at the end to feel more casual. There’s a whole other set of ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... to bankrupt last winter after it hosted a $35,000 per plate fundraiser

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... beanbags into the hole. It was a surprisingly idyllic way to spend a Friday

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent ... . After dinner we finally made it to our actual house. After a rather ... " places, I've decided to take a hit to my resume and spend what is likely to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  this is basically a temporary goodbye (and a permanent goodbye to the ... Jony Ive video?). Anyway, I'm very happy to say that yesterday I joined ... next 6 months! ^ from the Infinite Corridor to 1 Infinite Loop  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... small things. For me, a love of wild and beautiful places demands

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll ... signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We're feeling it too, believe it or not. I have to tell you that the selection ... , wonder and sleep deprivation that MIT students come to embrace. I don

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009