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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... Eastern Europeans to the MIT Global Startup Workshop conference, I hopped

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat until 4 pm, sometimes a college student has to take some responsibility

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  thanks to my prefrosh George for being really independent and finding his way home at 6 AM without my help, to Kristin R for her wonderful (if slightly awkward) compliment at Meet The Bloggers, to "Joooliyah" for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  began, we stood up to do an icebreaker: Say your name. Make one sound you ... story is that life is so much richer when you're able to have fun ... that turned out to consist mostly of resume workshops and recruiters from

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  insanity native to jungles clotted around the siren shores of Winter Break ... .” Mystery resolved, the fruitcake was donated to Random Hall and East Campus, to be divided unequally amongst 400 or so residents. 2.The Choir Party

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  that only gets seen by some poor undergrad grader. I was tempted to write ... this, I was really worried to get back my 8.02 pset. You'd think that if ... about physics.) Well, my 8.02 grader had written. Welcome to physics. Get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -quadruple-booking-yourself-and-forgetting-about-all-four-things hard Because you’re-too-busy-trying-to-prevent-your ... just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... (and other delicious things) they've made to celebrate Pi Day (which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... Prakash, getting in some last-minute shopping, and preparing to leave. My ... Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  pretty simple, maybe would only take about 2.5 hours to complete at first ... two problems. it took us 5 hours to complete three. as i type this up, i ... i've been learning was what would eventually lead me to my downfall. i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  shave his head bald to get rid of aerodynamic drag before the 2004 Tour de ... 's major newspaper. Figuring ways to go faster with the flow By Phil Mc ... clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with ... very confident and has to act like a different person to try to get ... change. I had to find something to get out of the house, and not be locked

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  get from my Irish folklore class to a MechE class at MIT. I’m going to ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... variety of humanities classes.  Don’t get me wrong, MIT has its share of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  refinement to get to a place I was comfortable with, and adding 5-inch heels to ... , and left to start getting ready. Thanks to a team of lovely stylists ... Infinite is a student-run magazine and group dedicated to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  took a few days to get the essential furniture set up. Boxes were so ... to get our common spaces more together, though. The living room was in ... guess we'll get it whenever one of us feels un-hosed enough to take the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You ... structure of America's higher education systems Great! Glad to get that over

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019