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• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... housemates and I frantically started final projects, caught up on recorded ... of break. (Well, initially, I said "no academic work but I'll start on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  fiction. i currently have pink post-it notes stuck inside three books on my ... books i intended on finishing with me to campus (these three among them ... ."][/annotation] doodling on my bass that i bought used at the local sam-ash three months ago

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  around on the floor, filled with unnamed restlessness. Cleaning my room ... (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at ... hours a day, performing, working on the set, or being extremely ill. TBH

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  going on four years now, and yet it still surprises me when it hits. On ... : 1 hour. Count hours on timecards to ensure desk workers get paid. To ... Chronicles and Paul Farmer's “Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  , choke down my ‘mildly’ spiced, tears-inducing meal, play badminton on some days, table tennis on others, code some more, come back to my hotel room ... one of the leafier subsets of the city. From the balcony of my room on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from ... practicing their choreography on-stage when I responded to my friend: Me ... job. However, when I think of the colleagues I work with on a daily

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus ... far, the best eating place in the entire Stud - nay, perhaps the best on ... rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing ... , some will be videos and some more standard posts depending on the subject ... turn subtitles on, so just click the CC and just click English.

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  my summer travels -- I was home briefly on 3 separate occasions (my ... just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus ... started, I was running on 5-6 hours of sleep a night -- the FPOP schedule

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... MIT is a massive 24 hour hackathon that happens every fall right on campus

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the ... , but he was too late. On my first day at MIT, I talked to my roommate ... Development and Substance Abuse.   DAY 2 On Day 2, we started with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  an embodiment of modern consumerism and globalism. Here, you can go on ... your food under the beautiful Quincy Market dome, or outside on the benches, watching the sun set and the lights turn on—highly romantic. Wait

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions ... Day 2015. Loren and I collaborated, with Elizabeth, on that video (and ... rest of the communications team here), and so on. Hopefully it will be an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  written on paper, and I see colors that personify emotions in ways words ... out, doing the exact opposite of concentrating. When everyone’s on ... everything else is nonexistent except the very intimidating PSet sitting on the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and ... verify that you will receive a decision on the 16th, you should visit ... reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link. There is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  --skipped some, too. This is what I wrote on the night of October 10: What a ... Angeles, Florida, and the Grand Canyon. Based on stereotypes alone, I did ... street. On a whim (but not before consulting the Internet), I biked to the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance ... , although I wouldn’t recommend this strategy on exams. Anyways, let’s move on ... difficulty. For 8.01 and 8.02, weekly psets are posted online on the MITx

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... extended a beanstalk. On it, hung Jack, all packed and ready for adventure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... visually by some serious on-table choreography. Freestyle rapping was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014