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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  things through her. Things like hacks :) It was a matter of some dismay to my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... keeping up with her inbox, she is naturally well-informed about the goings-on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  coworker sent me some links to a project that his friend had worked on, which ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... a cup of tea on his way to fight an invisible space bear the printer ... present to the MIT community. Me, on the couch, taking this photo. I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  misadventures with the reply-to-all feature and otherwise... I don't want to ... me to thinking about quiz bowl. I was thinking about how much fun I had doing quiz bowl in high school, even though I'm not on the MIT College

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  tossed it down to me. Tugging it on over my top, I grinned, bounded up the ... how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... party raged on. Tech-y house music thumped through the disgustingly humid

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on ... have discovered this on my way back from a West Coast chemical ... cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  such as my blog is not the place to have a discussion on highly serious ... the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be away from my blog for a few days, but my ability to get online was a bit

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  arrived on the 21st, so that gave us around three days to do all the prep ... about anime, to listening in on a heated debate about the US education ... second time, we are now beyond desensitized to the word. It's both awful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  mattress pad, cooking utensils, etc.), and the rest to bring with me on a ... limit and carry-on backpack, I was ready to embark on my first stop -- San ... . Shoutout to my friends (two from MIT!) for coming to watch and cheering me on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  snowflakes on our tongues. except for daniel, because apparently he tried to do ... and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  .  Tetazoa would often organize large Domino’s orders to save on delivery fees ... nicely, I wanted to give her a body pillow + cover with Fischl drawn on it ... ’s shipping got delayed to after Jess’s flight, so I drew on the Walounge pillow

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015 ... dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering ... mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  Peak fall foliage has finally hit MIT. Some trees on campus started to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus become awash in color (thanks in part to that unusual snowstorm last week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  autograph my problem set. Now to see if they want a guest spot on my blog ... So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  event.) For dinner, I went to India Quality, in Kenmore Square. After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta ... activities is playing on MIT's Women's Water Polo team (Christi, I think

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025