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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... the lanes with the gas pumps on the right had much shorter lines than those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on ... lost about 5 pounds last term on what I like to call the "75 Unit Diet ... to stay in shape so that when he careens down a mountain on glare ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his ... digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got ... to take me in on very short notice. Eventually, I did make it back to ... one of the things that was going on today relates to something MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  period, culminating with a ceremonious shave on mailing day in March. Only ... 'll know that the decisions have been mailed. The Name On The Door. Why does ... story on that one... I share 3-107 with Matt some other folks, including

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  favorite part of my notebook. I use CAD (Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape) for ... preliminary design to get feedback on. [carousel image1="116775" image2 ... on everything from my interest in the subject, the pace of the lecture

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  the opportunities, resources, and culture on campus. In particular ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis. Looking back though, I remember being hesitant when deciding on whether or

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... on campus that you might recognize from Wakanda Forever

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  more like MIT. The last item on that list was: ~something else~: that we’re conspiring on with our old friend Ceri R. ’16, that is not live yet, but which ... installation. For the blogs, I wanted to go into a little more detail on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wheels on them so you can roll them out into the lobby for visitors to see. Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well as writing a prompt on the other board that visitors can write answers

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our undergrad lounge is my favorite place on campus. By the way, hi! I’m Juliana ... focus on geobiology, organic geochemistry, and astrobiology. Those are a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... on puzzles for a while that night, and there were good puzzles! great ... was leaving and i was hanging around with some other people left on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  resembling the quote (like, did these people spend even two minutes on fact ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our ... that’s been on my mind the most lately is the pandemic — after getting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  , silence- have profoundly shifted my perspective on them.   Petey ... collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... your passion. Someone should stitch this on a pillow, because these apply

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ), you have undoubtedly seen endless bingo memes on people's instagram/facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... completely silent store. “failed an exam”: I got a 12 on a 5.12 exam even after

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  average number of hours that students spend on this class a week, based on ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning ... in day out until the day I die, that is what I want to work on and what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  and one for my mom for when she comes and visits next month. I headed on ... to North Station. So, I get there, see my 10:20, On Time, train to ... The Alchemist, I run outside probably looking half mad, and I hop on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  .” -a sophomore on the Trashion committee “It was all trash! Beautiful ... collection. On Friday night, models walked the runway with their were judged by ... judges on various criteria, including recyclability, wearability, and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016