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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  freshest MIT admits, and over the summer, if I can make it, it’s time to ... librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before ... and making flowers, so I squeezed a  on top of the cake instead. Then I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  followed by red Favorite fabric softener: Bounce (not to be confused with the ... to ask? Comment your questions in. (By the way, I probably won't change ... elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  planning CPW, I mean that the entire campus comes together to make CPW as ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by Eugene, reminds me of a Dance Troupe concert (Dance Troupe, by the way, is ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  your eyes on it and make sure you actually hit it, how you have to bend ... : refreshing, distant, but probably just something I'm making up to make myself ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  it's a mistake to make one-sided assumptions without experiencing it ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a ... -campus grocery store, it’s been fun to show off a little piece of what makes MIT so ... the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... Millennium Scholar Culture shock gives way to passion for learning By Jason ... graduate school, Garay plans to get a jump start by attending a summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing ... 're doing it to make a deadline, or because you're forced to. but if i tell my ... where by wanting to do everything, you end up doing nothing.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  probably make room in his group to staple with all three of us. The other two ... that we'd have to move out by November 25, two Wednesdays from now. This ... that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  ; This semester has been by far the toughest, most challenging to date ... 've constantly reminded myself that I didn't come to MIT expecting easy. It was by ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car ... a semester later I stopped by the Office of Academic Services to pick

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  and making screens light up like magic. Then I started to realize that I ... makes me cry, and I started frantically applying to internships left and right, hoping to get something. And by magic, and by sheer luck, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  nature makes. but everything is harder now than it used to be, more ... a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good home situation and fast wifi, there was no way i would make it on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• 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 ... be helpful if you don't have one already. Just to let you know, this

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

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  sunny weather for this week. I should preface this by saying: I love CPW ... relating to what can be sensitive or private material, and students come here ... second, I’m really forgetful and can never remember to take photos

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  coordinating an entire trip for us to make it happen. the last couple of days ... , and we were flying back to Boston to be greeted by 19 degree weather! it ... opportunities, but I have one more of them, and I fully intend to make the most of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022