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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... take much longer than it does (usually I split a storage unit with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... what's in here and what has been strategically left out could fill a few ... in a few hours than I have in a few months (I'll blame writer's block

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of blogging once a week. Sophomore year, this has become decidedly more ... -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  My breakfast last Thursday: a Red Bull and an antibiotic. That's the ... month. Let's go back a few weeks. At the time of writing, it is Halloween ... riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going ... distracting herself by marathoning a TV show (possibly Firefly, again), playing a video game, or goofing off with friends to listen. If you want some

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a ... white snow to gray.♪ ♫Ralph Landau looks like a Star Destroyer, while ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half ... dressed up as a motley crew of 7 characters from Doctor Who... plus a Spaceman Spiff, Finn from Adventure Time, a gypsy/Peruvian, and a MIT student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I ... ://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-amazing-grilled-cheese-sandwich-recipes) would be a good life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  sort of a broad overview of media studies at the graduate level. Anyway, a few weeks ago Professor Uricchio told us we would be having a guest ... campus as a CMS alumna, MIT lecturer, and cofounder of what might be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp ... whole “constant vigilance” mode (a la Mad-Eye Moody) because Central

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  Yes, fall is here: This blog post will be a collection of several ... . I'm planning to write a blog post about the Food Coop later this week ... cream through a small hole in a jar into the LN2...) Halloween is this

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... campus doesn’t vibrate with the same lightning-in-a-bottle energy. All

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... tag). Never, in a dozen years of pre-college schooling, was the sin of ... learn the definition of a standard deviation until six weeks ago

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  've been making a robot!. As the hyperlink implies, I've been participating ... number is 6.186 -- MASlab is a course 6 class, but it is also listed in ... laboratory, which means that a bunch of college-type kids have to build a bunch

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At ... , we had a three day weekend. What does this mean? It means it's a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  country's name comes from the Greek meaning "a single house," perhaps ... completing a computer program to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants ... will have made a leap forward. [read more] About the same time, I got a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  waitlisted students and transfer applicants are feeling a little left out. So here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... reconvene and discuss the waitlist. You can see a lot of answers about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... building, all are a little different than your ordinary structure. While some ... INSTALLED DIP-N-DOTS MACHINE!!! A hollowed-out rectangular prism, it

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008