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• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... -mache pinata for Phil '05 on the night before he left for his graduate studies in ... for at dim sum, but if you make a request, sometimes they'll serve it at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... ). Favorite TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... for the rest of the day because the spoon is angry. Jason has two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  Marathon on 4/17/06--be sure to check out Mitra's Blog for an entry on ... see what's it's like, I'm trying to be a vegetarian for exactly one month. So, for 10 days running, I've been subsisting mostly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... explanation for why he did this, but it might be that he was just bored. A ... Seattle for the summer (Boeing, Microsoft, etc.) and had dinner at The Crab

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... Birmingham for an evaluation of his delivery. Because ASMI is in conjunction ... apply to sports and people's movements playing sports. So for my senior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn ... ’ve become illiterate, too hosed to read good books. For all of October I have ... poetry for anyone else to read, and when I write for myself I'm all sorts

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least for now, I’m not too worried about that inevitability. Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone ... -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car ... , our 550-Volt custom battery, controls algorithms for torque vectoring ... all the answers. Just go for it.  1) To be a good software engineer, you

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... in myself. If I didn’t let myself try my best for fear of failing. If I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  blogger for five long (and excellent) years. I have tried SO MANY Oreo flavors. And the time has come for me to share what I learned with you. I ... statement may not be true: the more unusual ones are often only available for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my ... —  (I’ve been trying very hard to stop using the word “home” for New House ... ’ll orchestrate a situation for you to meet my dad, and then he won't be a stranger

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  was not a comfortable sleep. Luckily for me, my Amazon bed got delivered ... year. i added the numbers for primary and secondary 14 majors, so the ... nice to leave MIT vaguely knowing". The quick rationales for classes that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  show, so I'll just put this here, along with my short pitch for the show ... Gravity Falls, Oregon for the summer and live with the Gruncle Stan Pines ... . Anyways, it's very hard for me to put into words how much this show means to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  to get it out there, to grasp at a solution for anything I could actually have control over. I waited for him to tell me what to do, hoping he ... ’t set to start for another two weeks, I wanted to maintain some semblance

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... rankings and thoughts: 1) Baker: because I was hosted here for CPW and ... (debatable, if I'm being honest with myself). Things turned out fine for me. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  about it some more once I hear the jet engines whirlin'. :) But for now ... there for more than 4 hours, so they delayed my arrival time in Chicago ... to think that I'd never get home in time for Christmas (this happened

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in ... ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the whole month of January. So for me, I spent this month learning some new

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025