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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  -colored shoes 6. She once wrote a 5-page paper on The Economics of Richard Cheese ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815... (examining file) the murder of a Mr. Burton Conner. (Pierce examines the file

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... Water War and for the Top of the Sponge roofdeck party. It's funny to ... head and roll some blocks of ice down the hall! because it's not the ice

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  : Weekends at MIT are like the soft, cushiony slices of whole-grain bread ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ascent to 10,000 meters or so of altitude. The night before, I had primly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of situations the problem with being suspicious of everyone is that interacting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places ... the huge amount of art we have on campus, and some things I never ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... all of Thanksgiving with these three; I'm going to exhaust the gloating ... on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  the mystique of the whole thing if you don't know that the kid sitting ... name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... - considering I probably spent upwards of several weeks over the last three years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... , made first contact with aliens, signed peace treaties and saved the world

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  photoshopped onto above.) The first race of my ski racing career arrived ... favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  helps us keep track of everyone’s applications, pretty please and thank ... system—list the first trimester grade: AP English Lit and Comp A AP Studio ... Happy New Year, beautiful people! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  first." At the end of all my babble I don't even know what I've said. They ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  on MIT faculty pages. Nisha D. hails from Petey’s neck of the woods ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 ... who, for the first time in the history of the blogs, will be TWIN

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  , the softness of your sweater. The whole experience is intoxicating. The ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning and I shall have no end: the beam of light stretches out before and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  The first day of classes is tomorrow. [annotation note='like, of ... the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... first day of anything can always feel a bit stressful—but that must

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  repercussions on the job market. First of all, it is very competitive to find a ... number may be attributed to the fact that a similar percentage of ... , making them more interesting and adaptable. Can't the same be true of life

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia ... home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... a whole segment of my vocabulary that had lain on a shelf this summer. Well, most of my vocabulary (the English vocabulary, that is) did that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  locked myself in the dark abyss that is the darkroom, losing all track of ... the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... —to document the trip. Along with the camera, I carried roughly fifty rolls of

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... . [caption id="attachment_47737" align="aligncenter" width="768"] the houses of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019